You already agree. The set of opinions people should be accountable for is contained in the set of political opinions. The point is that most political opinions are not in the accountability set.
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....easily? judging people harshly for holding shitty ethical systems is super easy, you just do it. why would I care about how/why they acquired those ethical systems, that ain't no kind of excuse
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are you one of those Religious folks who holds that people born on the other side of the world with no exposure to your tenets are gonna be sent to burn in hell by a hitherto unknown angry god
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naw, all can Become Good, but 'i had no opportunity to Become Good' isn't a get out of NotGood card.
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besides the good is inherently knowable to all thinking beings, in bicameral people it appears as a voice of great authority speaking directly to them
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so surely all men born in idk say Periclean Athens were irredeemably wicked start to finish on account of their reprehensible views of women thats pretty interesting youd've have thought that a reasonable fraction wouldve figured out the Correct 21C view but somehow no??
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Are there any societies that you do believe were irredeemably wicked - perhaps those that regularly performed human sacrifice, had institutionalized slavery, etc? It's hard to see how this argument, if accepted, doesn't generalize to every past society.
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If there is some sort of continuum between that evil society and a good society (like there kind of is between ancient Athens and the modern West) then maybe the wickedness was worth it. Aztecs were evil but were also a dead end, so their evil was not worth it.
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Arguably the Inca wouldn't have been, but the Aztecs, yeah.
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