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by rightbyte
616 days ago
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I think it might be benifitial to not assume one self is the good guy. It doesn't work on a macro level to assume that. You could change black and white to Palestinian and Israeli and suddenly most of these 'I would never' would have a very nuanced view on the matter. But, as I agreed, there is a limit on stamina to discuss with the outmost fringe people. |
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And yes, the issue of Palestinian rights in Israel, in particular, is extremely thorny, which I presume is why you picked it. There are extremes on both sides—both of which are very real positions that very real people are taking today, neither of which is supportable—and there are shades of gray in the middle, and if I had an answer to that question that didn't raise 100 more, I'd probably have already won the Nobel Peace Prize.
But there are plenty of people in the US who would genuinely try to argue that black people don't deserve the same rights as white people, and unless you are one of them, I think you're likely to agree that that is not a thorny issue: there's a very clear right and wrong answer. It's not conceptually analogous to the situation in the Middle East, even though the words sound similar.
The existence of hard moral questions without easy answers does not negate the existence of moral questions with very obvious answers that a large number of people are nonetheless very obviously on the wrong side of.