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by xorfish 1330 days ago
So eating humans is only wrong, because other people think it is wrong and there are laws against it?

I find that really shortsighted. Slavery isn't bad because we as a society have decided it so. It always has been bad.

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It’s always been bad to us living today, but it hasn’t always been bad to people in the past. I’m not a moral realist because I don’t see what sort of objective facts are moral. The universe doesn’t care. It’s humans who are moral, and what’s considered good or bad varies quite a lot. No, I wouldn’t want to be enslaved, and the golden rule seems like a good principle to live by, but nothing in nature makes it true. It’s a value judgement we moderns make.