This would increase everyone's well-being (except Helen, but she agreed with your point, so...)
When we can usually be fairly sure that ppl have both emotions & ethics.
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Yes indeed but why confuse the two? Why use emotion in an ethical argument?
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Because we're human! Emotional & rational animals & it all exists together & feeds into each other.
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There are some discourses where emotion isn't appropriate but Twitter isn't one of them.
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I'm going to concede all this. I think my point stands but I'm misreading the context.
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In fairness, I realised that this isn't a big deal here.
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Absolutely, you did. It was the different perceptions of emotion & reason that interested me
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You'd never say 'Stop doing X unjust thing to women. We all have women we love!' I would say that re: men. BUT
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We have the same recognition of the problem with making emotional bonds the driver for ethics.
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In the same way, when someone makes a reasoned argument, we don't assume he's limited to this & has no emotions.
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Agreed. It's mixing the two that I find hard to deal with. I know you didn't see the statement as an argument but
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I found it hard not to. Again, this is very minor.
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I know it is. But it relates to much broader ways of thinking. To our humanity & bonds & the reasons we do things.
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It was interesting to see how we read that statement differently.
We agree on so many things but perhaps take different paths -
to reaching our common destination. There are many ways of becoming a humanist.
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