'Then who gets to decide what's ethical?' isn't a gotcha response to opposition to cultural relativity. It misses the point completely.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Cultural (moral) relativity doesn't work whatever ethical principles you have. It only works if you don't have any or that is it.
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I suppose you could have a moral principle that a stereotypical majority opinion is always morally right but that isn't really what happens.
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I think that is
@shadihamid's position: democracy is the ultimate value. Whatever the majority wants is therefore the most ethical thing 21 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
support -- even if the majority want gay men thrown off high buildings & you yourself wd personally oppose that. I disagree w Shadi strongly
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Replying to @HPluckrose @shadihamid
Hv you read Islamic Exceptionalism? Describes the situation in Muslim-majority countries vividly. But Shadi's recommendation of what 2 do?
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No, I must put it on my list.
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