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by gregates 204 days ago
The idea that there is some significant, load-bearing distinction in meaning between "ethical" and "moral" is something I've encountered a few times in my life.

In every case it has struck me as similar to, say, "split infinitives are ungrammatical": some people who pride themselves on being pedants like to drop it into any conversation where it might be relevant, believing it to be both important and true, when it is in fact neither.

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I was hoping to point more towards "don't suppress a viewpoint, rather discuss it" and less toward semantics. I guess I should have illuminated that in my above comment.