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by amp108 1298 days ago
> It's better in general not to go around judging people's morality, and if you can't manage that, try to keep your moral judgments to yourself.

You do realize that this is, itself, a moralizing statement, don't you?

I also suspect nobody really adheres to it, either. People simply say "don't judge other people's morality" because they don't want themselves or others to be judged by the default/most common cultural standards. But as soon as you tell other people to judge or not to judge, well, you're judging.

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It would be more precise to tell people to consider that other people have different value systems and that their view is not the standard everyone should be judged by.
> You do realize that this is, itself, a moralizing statement, don't you?

Nope, I thought about that. Morality is about good and evil, not effective or ineffective, productive or unproductive.