commie

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[–] commie 1 points 3 days ago (2 children)

your version is no more defensible than divine command theory, and it's totally useless for debating what we ought to think is moral.

[–] commie 1 points 4 days ago (4 children)

so you're saying it's just straight up moral relativism, a theory of ethics that doesn't actually allow any questioning of morality, like divine command theory.

[–] commie 1 points 4 days ago (6 children)

this isn't an answer

[–] commie 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (8 children)

can you tell me what ethical system says morality determined by society? it's been a few years since my philosophy degree, and it wasn't specialized in ethics, but I seem to remember moral relativism as being universally appalling.

[–] commie 3 points 5 days ago (10 children)

laws have nothing to do with morality. laws protect the powerful and the at social institutions that made them powerful. the fact that private property laws exist means powerful people depend on private property to maintain power.

[–] commie 1 points 5 days ago

they could choose to say that, but instead they said natural, implying there are dairy cattle roaming in nature, and we know how long they live. they made a claim that simply isn't evidenced.

[–] commie 1 points 5 days ago

tautologically, everything people do is artificial.

[–] commie 0 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

the claim is their natural life span is 15 to 20 years, but that's simply untrue. that's an artificial life span.

[–] commie 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

no one is advocating for inhumane treatment of animals.

[–] commie 1 points 6 days ago (5 children)

do you have any data on the domesticated species surviving without artificial assistance?

[–] commie 0 points 6 days ago

if you have the data I'll gladly read it

[–] commie 1 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I don't know of any. which is what I've been saying: the claim I'm objecting to is untested.

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