Google Engineer bails out student in jail

Post by [deleted] » Fri, Dec 31, 2010, 4:42 AM UTC

derefr wrote: post #195

bugsy wrote: post #189

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What things exactly? Killing people? That is widely supported through ongoing wars, trade embargoes, abortion, and the death penalty. Rape? What we call rape in many states in the USA, an 18 yr old having consensual sex with a 16 yr old, is accepted in other parts of the world. Or let's take Sweden's definition, having consensual sex without a condom. That's not against the law in most places. Pedophilia? Anthropolog…

The most obvious case is property theft. Everyone feels some sort of base emotional sting when something that they have grown attached to is forcefully taken away from them. This can be generalized to conceptual belongings: pride, control, honor, dignity, etc. can also be "stolen" in various ways. The more serious immoral acts, however, of the kind that leave their subjects unable to emote (whether because they are d…

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Post by bugsy » Fri, Dec 31, 2010, 4:42 AM UTC

derefr wrote: post #195

bugsy wrote: post #189

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What things exactly? Killing people? That is widely supported through ongoing wars, trade embargoes, abortion, and the death penalty. Rape? What we call rape in many states in the USA, an 18 yr old having consensual sex with a 16 yr old, is accepted in other parts of the world. Or let's take Sweden's definition, having consensual sex without a condom. That's not against the law in most places. Pedophilia? Anthropolog…

The most obvious case is property theft. Everyone feels some sort of base emotional sting when something that they have grown attached to is forcefully taken away from them. This can be generalized to conceptual belongings: pride, control, honor, dignity, etc. can also be "stolen" in various ways. The more serious immoral acts, however, of the kind that leave their subjects unable to emote (whether because they are d…

People support taxes and welfare though. Taxation is theft plain and simple. So again, although some are opposed to the theft of taxation, not all are, and so it's not true there is universal revulsion for property theft. Also theft of even people's houses and land via eminent domain seizures, or of cars through police confiscations against the innocent are supported by some and not by others.

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