How do you campaign against cruelty without moralizing rhetoric?
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Date: November 22nd, 2017 11:55 PM Author: tan 180 den
It's kinda hard to talk about bullying, witchhunts, and other 'cruelties for sport' without losing your equanimity. But at the same time, morality is a really funny thing. You know that to make an effective moral argument you actually can't use the word 'evil'? Using that word, at least prominently, practically guarantees the argument will fail.
The reason is, most people subconsciously think morality is faggy grandma shit, and actually worship at the altar of cool. So to make a moral argument about anything you actually need to prove the action you're critiqueing is pathetic, weak, unprofitable or boring, not "evil," because evil sounds too christian. The whole thing is a giant mess and I'm not sure it can be untangled. This shit may well be terminal.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3806492&forum_id=2#34753830) |
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