Right. Sure. That answer would be hard to defend.
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Replying to @fronxer @HPluckrose
(The reason why I replied initially is that you were saying/implying that moral relativity is pretty similar to no morals at all.)
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I am saying that in the sense that one cannot claim to stand for LGBT rights if one only does so for white westerners.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @fronxer
If that disappears in relation to Pakistani or Ugandan LGBTs & u say 'Its their culture to oppose LGBT rights & we shld respect it'
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Then your ethics are culturally relative & the principle 'stand for LGBT equality' doesn't really exist.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
No, what it means is that that person is a lazy fuck and makes moral decisions based on literally no knowledge at all
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Replying to @fronxer
Not so much a lack of knowledge but a fear of imposing western values on non-western cultures & that this is a kind of colonialism.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @fronxer
Well-intentioned but in practice leads to failing to support the liberals of that society coz no consistency.
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Supporting the liberals of another society seems like a good thing to do as a cultural relativist. It is quite consistent with that idea.
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Aren't you in Germany? Isn't it nighttime? But OK. I've just tweetbombed you since you must have written that! Sorry.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
I am! Mutual tweetbombing is not tweetbombing! <3
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