I have recently heard of 'womanface' and the 'cotton ceiling.' We have complicated concepts being adopted & adapted all over the place.
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And they simply can't be applied consistently because the underlying premise of SocJus is not based on principles but on identity & power.
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So an argument or analogy made for the ethical treatment of one group won't work if transposed to another. Yet, people keep trying.
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This is what would happen if SocJus ruled society. The rules would grow ever more complicated & change daily.
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We really do need simpler but consistent principles & like
@IonaItalia, I think they should be prioritise care/harm foundations.1 reply 0 retweets 6 likesShow this thread -
A conservative argued to me that because conservatives hold all these values & liberals just the first two,conservatism is a fuller moralitypic.twitter.com/xv1V889nX9
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I don't agree. I don't think that because we have all of these foundations underlying our morality, it means they are all equally valuable.
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That seems to me like the naturalistic fallacy. It means that we need to understand them to reduce misunderstanding & accommodate them.
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But we can & should work out between us which of them to base society on & which to understand & make accommodation for in individual lives
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Sanctity/degradation, in particular, seems to me like something it's useful to understand in ourselves for the purpose of overcoming it.
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'Yes, I feel disgusted by this but does that make it morally wrong? Can I justify making laws around it using anything but my intuitions?'
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Kind of agree, but what about cruelty to animals? And does damage to social cohesiveness count? Difficult to empirically assess.
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Harm to animals must count. Damage to social cohesiveness, I'd say no.
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