So do you get mad a folks for doing the right, empathetic thing when it’s a privileged person on the line? Or do you get mad at them for not doing the same when the person on the line is underprivileged?
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More ethics: in general, the correct ethic is the one that expands the sphere of our authentic and thorough empathy. But often that comes into tension with wanting to resist hegemonic structures...
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If you only do the latter, and that gets you nowhere, at what point does the former become, at minimum, morally mediocre?
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I am really about to get into this sermon on moral mediocrity. Because probably the number one pragmatic issue in people’s ethics today is that the privileged are allowed to be morally mediocre and those with less privilege are not. True on MANY levels.
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