Slavery in Ancient Greece was ubiquitous. Let's assume every citizen of Athens, for example, accepted the legitimacy of slavery. Would that mean there were no morally good Athenians?
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Replying to @PhilosophyExp
That depends. If there were good anti-slave arguments in existence, then those who chose to discount those arguments were morally bad. If there were no good arguments, then they could have been simply ignorant.
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Replying to @christianjbdev
Hmmmm. Not sure - seems to suggest it is only morally bad to hold slaves if you know it's wrong (not quite what you claimed, but I think that's where your position would lead).
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Replying to @PhilosophyExp @christianjbdev
There's a difference between a moral action and a judgment on a person's character. If bacteria were found to be sapient, taking antibiotics could be called genocide, but would you still consider people who took antibiotics but didn't know that bacteria were sapient morally bad?
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Replying to @kirbmarc @christianjbdev
Sure, but the fact there's a difference doesn't mean that a person's actions tell us nothing about their character, and there might well be a certain class of actions that tells us everything we need to conclude they've a bad character.
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Replying to @PhilosophyExp @christianjbdev
What is a bad character is also not entirely clear.
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Well that's certainly true. Not defending virtue ethics, etc., just saying that there are ways to think about this in terms of character.
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