Comment on Philosophy meme
rbesfe@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
All of those things are group consensus? Like there are definitely examples of when group consensus was the other way and those things were practiced freely
Slavery wasn’t accepted. It was widely practiced but it was abolished because people agreed it was wrong. Slaves didnt want to be slaves or see their status as slaves as morally good.
Think about that for a moment.
Not allowing women to participate in democracy is another example. Women fought against that and won.
Extreme inequality is still all around us and we almost all agree that its wrong.
Slavery is as old as human history, people only agreed it was wrong relatively recently
Slavery went away because of technological advancement moreso than morality. Once you didn’t need hundreds of people to plant and harvest crops, slavery gets less popular.
AnotherRyguy@lemmy.world 8 months ago
But were they morally correct when they were accepted?
rbesfe@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
From the perspective of the majority in those societies, yes
ParsnipWitch@feddit.de 8 months ago
Math also isn’t woven into our universe as a thing. You can still decide whether or not something is objectively wrong or false.
mindrover@lemm.ee 8 months ago
So the majority of people agree on what exactly? What do they mean when they say something is morally right or ok?