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by mdszy 2166 days ago
It brings my heart such great joy to know that there are people out there like you who are willing to argue about trivialities that don't actually matter.

Not everything is a deep philosophical discussion that needs to get down to absolute true statements.

Sometimes it's just someone, like me, who is sick of black people being literally murdered by police and thinks it's absurd that white assholes get more worked up over some property than over black lives.

I literally don't give a single shit about absolute ethical principles.

I give a shit about black lives.

Black lives matter, shut the hell up already.

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Yeah, who cares about "trivialities" like "my ethical principles are inconsistent or absurd"?

Apparently, all the people who criticize the ethics of the police, the ethics of politicians, the ethics of racist economic policies, and so on. I mean, it's not like consistent ethical principles might go into devising something like a Constitution that recognizes people's natural rights and restricts government from infringing on those rights.

Amazing that you managed to turn this into a partisan attack on "your side" when all that's being discussed is the logical inconsistency of your own stated principles.

Again, if you think "black lives are more valuable than property" is absurd then you really need to think about what that says about you.
Fortunately, no one in this thread said that. Unfortunately, you did say in your very first post that you believed in an absurd ethical principle.