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by yummies 1452 days ago
But if they are abusing other people, you'd care, and intervention would be justified? Is that not imposing your dogma on them?
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I’d assert that an anti-dogma stance is inherently non-dogmatic.
I challenge the assertion that the gp is really antidogmatic. The definition of abuse and the appropriate response to it, while generally unquestioned in one society, may not be the same in a remote island society.
Let's jump right in the deep end. Let's say you have a remote culture where genital mutilation is done for purely religious reasons. This is done in an unclean fashion, as it's a tribal culture. Would you argue against intervention?
it isn't a dogma, it is my personal dislike of [unconsented] abuse. Depending on situation/domain i may be wrapping it into legal/dogmatic/moral/etc. devices, whatever works, yet in the end at the very core it would be just that my personal dislike of abuse.