Comment on Philosophy meme
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 2 years agoWe in the west have a basis to call this person immoral.
The places where slavery is legal do not have that basis.
Comment on Philosophy meme
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 2 years agoWe in the west have a basis to call this person immoral.
The places where slavery is legal do not have that basis.
HandBreadedTools@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Ask the slaves that lol. That argument is moot because it relies on legitimizing the oppression committed by slavers by not seeing enslaved people as part of the population/group. Their history was not recorded the same way the slaver’s history was, yet they were still humans that thought about, talked about, and theorized about morality too. You don’t get to claim to know the group consensus of a past society just because slavers used oppression to erase the viewpoints of those who disagreed.
i_ben_fine@lemmy.one 2 years ago
That’s a very good point. Moral relativism can be true and oppressors can still be bad.