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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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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There's an interesting ch. in the Routeledge handbook of the imagination by Aaron Smuts on the ethics of imagination & fantasy.
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The thought is bad, even if the act is worse. Private expression of the thought .... has both value and risks?
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I agree - I think that it's possible to be cruel in our imaginations & that we are right to make negative moral judgements about that.
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