Belief in respect for persons means that culture does not determine morality, because in many cultures, including our own during the days of black slavery, we approved of practices that did not accord with respect for persons. Segregation would be another example.
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And currently abortion.
I wonder. Would leftists complain if the federal government stopped giving tax payer dollars to Planned Parenthood? Why not use those funds to encourage gun ownership?
Democrat argues that it's cheaper to kill people than keep them alive.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/god-help-us-colorado-democrat-makes-case-killing/
It is cheaper to kill certain people than to keep them alive. That is just a physical and economic fact.
Whether killing such people is moral or ethical or legal is not the same question as to it being cheaper.
"Belief in respect for persons means that culture does not determine morality, "
Victor, you have it back to front.
Morality is a complex mixture of our innate sensibilities and our cultural influences.
"because in many cultures, including our own during the days of black slavery, we approved of practices that did not accord with respect for persons."
Right, which disproves your very point.
Victor, you contradicted yourself in just the space of a few sentences.
In past American culture blacks were not respected as persons under the law.
In present American culture blacks are respected as persons under the law.
What changed? American culture. That shows that culture determined respect for persons, the opposite from your opening assertion.
The example you provide negates your own assertion.
Victor, the reason you did not gain traction as a philosopher is that your fundamental reasoning capacity is disjointed and nonsensical and it shows in your writings over the years.
But, I am ever the optimist. We cannot change the past. We might have just a very few years left to live, but we can still throw off past irrationality and come into the light of reason.
I mean, just look at Wittgenstein, for example. He wrote a great work early in his life, only to repudiate much of it later in life. You can do the same, Victor, I will be rooting for you.
I haven’t checked in here in a while. I’m glad to see brother Miller keeping up the good fight.
Good to see you Dave. Hope the CA fires missed you.
It is cheaper to kill certain people than to keep them alive. That is just a physical and economic fact.
Except she said all people and yes she was arguing that it was morally the right thing to do since it is the moral obligation of the government to prudently spend taxpayer money.
During her time to speak on the bill, McCluskie focused on how much money the state could save if women chose to have abortions rather than giving birth.
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