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if morality is individual, no, it DOESN'T matter to you if your neighbor is openly gay, or if your neighbor is openly a white supremacist...

but if your morality is collective, it matters because this person's individual ethics will affect the ethics of the entire community...

I say this not to equate being queer with being a white supremacist but simply to illustrate that both left and right have some feeling for

the idea that the actions of individuals DO have an important impact on the morality of the collective. (obviously my morals are pro-queer

anti-white supremacy, lol). So we need an ethical-political framework that recognizes community-level ethics and holds them in tension...

with individual ethics. That balance is precarious of late and needs to be consciously and intentionally addressed so it doesn't topple.

2) Contextualized ethics. Liberalism in its notions of common humanity does not account well for the idea that what is right for me...

may not be right for you, due to context. Obviously there's the n***a example. But also, it might be right for a white person in America...