Not for me it's not. I don't find it surprising we react to the deaths of people we don't know.. We react to death of characters in novels!
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The propensity to condemn seems fundamental to moral sentiments. And "grave dancing" is an expression of that propensity.
It's one of our least attractive characteristics, even if, as you suggest, it underpins the construction of moral frameworks.
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Yes, I agree with that. It's another way of saying that enormous harm and suffering was caused by pursuit of moral purity.
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The underlying point I'm trying to make, though, is that for many things, including moral principles, whether they are good or bad depends..
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..a lot on the degree, that pursued to the utmost extent they become a negation of themselves.
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I could go along with that claim (maybe). But, of course, my suspicion is that joyfully celebrating a death is morally self-negating.
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I'd say that's undeniably true in some cases, hard to accept in extreme cases (Stalin), and legitimately debatable in a non-empty gray area.
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