Quick thought experiment. Premise: We tend not to rule out *possibility* private acts with no predictable bad results are morally wrong.
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For example, many people would judge that screaming foul racial abuse at a person of color on television could be wrong even if private.
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But if we accept that private acts with no predictable bad consequences can be wrong, then why not certain kinds of thoughts?
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What's the difference between screaming racial abuse at a television & fantasizing about murdering the members of a particular racial group?
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Conclusion? Private acts with no predictable bad consequences can't be wrong? Or certain kinds of thoughts can be wrong? Something else?
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I was thinking of the PewDiePie thing. It's a slightly odd thought that what he did was only wrong because it was broadcast.
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But if it would have been wrong even if private, then why not thoughts? His act(s) are probably thought to be indicative of lack of virtue.
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But no reason to suppose that thoughts can't manifest & betray lack of virtue.
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I do tend to the view, for example, that if all your sexual fantasies involve the violent degradation of women, then... morally problematic.
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