It's also OK to be bigoted against the rich and professional athletes. My bigotry doesn't hurt people with social power.
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It's also OK to be bigoted against the rich and professional athletes. My bigotry doesn't hurt people with social power.
LogGrad98
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So in your personal code of ethics it's fine to be bigoted against people as long as you perceive it doesn't hurt them? Who decides who was hurt? Who decides whose pain matters and whose is fully acceptable? Do you think that white privilege or similar means that individuals deserve some kind of pain?
Note I am not taking relative pain, I'm talking absolute, as perceived by the individual. There will be people hurt and offended by Warren's words regarding religion and men, are they not allowed to feel pain? Or are you saying that it doesn't matter if they do or that you just don't care if they do because largely they will be people with privilege? Does they change if it offends someone of some protected class?
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Should people be sympathetic to pain that's caused because someone calls you out saying you can't cause other people pain anymore?
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See, this bigot doesnt even deny he's a bigot. Even has his own code of bigotry.
You should write a book. Call it, How to be a "good" bigot
doesn’t make it acceptable.
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What does that even mean?
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"There will be people hurt and offended by Warren's words regarding religion and men, are they not allowed to feel pain?"
Why should I care when those people have used religion and masculinity to cause pain on a grand level?
Why should I care when they perceive pain because they're called out for causing pain?
Why should I care when they feel pain because they can't cause pain?
How serious do you want to get about a quick reply to a troll? If you're good with acknowledging that my answer was flippant, with some truth behind it but not an attempt to be accurate, that's all I was aiming for.
Assuming you want to dive into this discussion, shall we get into the difference between using deontological, consequentialist, or utilitarian ethics? How about the part where I already pointed out that, "My bigotry doesn't hurt people with social power", indicating that they will not feel pain?
To start, can we agree that causing pain is not always wrong? The Civil Rights movement was very painful for white supremacists. The American Revolution was a painful loss for the British, as was India in the 1940s. Whenever someone has privilege, it will be painful to lose it.
Actually, my inability to cause pain is a major factor in bigotry's degree of acceptability.
I disagree. Bigotry isn’t ok. Period.
is some bigotry worse than others? Sure, but there’s no degree of acceptability. degrees of unacceptably, I’ll give you that.
@One Brow, while I don’t agree with your pain and acceptability stance.
I feel I’m talking group based and you’re discussing it on a more individual level.
I’ve stated before that not all people or opinions are worth respecting. In that sense we agree. But mine isn’t based on any pain it might cause.
Is that like saying there are not different degrees of heat, just different degrees of coldness?