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by panarky 704 days ago
I hate the relativistic argument "if you stop doing evil thing X then something even worse than X might happen".

Because that argument is always used to justify doing evil instead of doing good.

And the even worse thing might not even happen.

The world is dynamic.

If you stop trading with Bangladesh because they mistreat their people, maybe they'll stop mistreating their people to get the dollars flowing again.

Maybe the fact that we continue trading with a brutal regime is what allows the regime to remain in power.

Maybe evil thing X is just evil and we stop doing evil instead of rationalizing the evil away.