If you are going to insist that things are ethical if they have widespread support and no widescale opposition, you have to concede that slavery, the persecution of homosexuals & the denial of rights to women were once ethical & still are in some places.
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Yes, murder is illegal, too. But I am not convinved that this is a bad injunction, just because most people hold to it. I suppose you would call the bar on murder conservative and unthinking.
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...no. We don't say murder is wrong because its a custom & lots of people think its bad. We say it's wrong because it kills people and we have principles around harm and human rights... There is an argument against it. You don't have one for MGM yet.
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When you say 'we have principles...' - those are manifested in laws.
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Some are, some aren't! If all of your principles are manifested in current laws, ok, but you still need to argue for them ethically in a discussion about the ethics of MGM. Just pointing out the law isn't an ethical argument.
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I'd also legalised certain drugs & prostitution & the right to die with dignity and improve freedom of speech laws.
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