If a given context is sufficiently different, existing answers to questions of morality can be hard to apply, due to a translation problem.
Yes, sorry, I don't understand. Can you give an example of when killing LGBTs wld be morally right by liberal principles?
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It would have to be in a society where LGBT people exist, are dominant, and are endangering the lives of non-LGBT people.
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But that would hold true in whatever culture that happened. The morality would be consistent.
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Not talking situational ethics - it's wrong to kill someone for their car but not to stop them killing you - but cultural values.
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Cultural values cld be 'women shouldn't go out.' Can condemn this. Situational ones cld be 'women under house arrest shldnt go out'
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Ok, so… to translate that into my 'context' world: you're saying there are nested contexts. A hierarchy of contexts. Yes?
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I'm fairly sure that's not what I'm saying coz I don't know what it means.
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Haha! Translating abstract concepts is challenging

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What I was saying was that principles like 'women shld have equal rights' shld be universal. Situations can change it but this ...
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