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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...

or even just "a person that didn't grow up in the hood" in America to respect and appreciate the police. But if you grew up in the hood...

and the police criminalized and extrajudicially punished you for basic, normal human actions, and the demands of your social group...

made the cops your enemy, well no, you SHOULDN'T respect and love and appreciate the police. That ethical obligation does not exist.

They generally have more power than you, and that will generally (but not always) compel you to obey in their immediate presence...

but all that "cops are heroes" shit? Nah, not for you. (But yes-ish for me, bc cops have treated me half-decent!) This expands out and out

to touch nearly all social issues in America. Another example gets into whether the ethics of speech are centered on the speaker...