Comment on question for the culture
petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 hours agoOkay, this is just a rhetoric critique:
You gotta stop using the word ethically here, haha. Whether something works out or not isn’t an ethics problem, and so is of course the very first thing IAmNorReal latches onto.
Just to be clear, I do agree with you. More people does get more complicated.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 hours ago
Uh, no, I don’t.
The entire origination of my critique was against the claim that monogamy is unethical.
Thats… what started the entire thing.
petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 hours ago
That part was fine, that’s not what I’m talking about; you’re just rejecting the other person’s claims.
It’s this part: “Polyamory can be difficult to do”, sure, but “polyamory is difficult to do ethically” is much harder to defend because it puts you in an anti-polyamory position. Now you’re talking about whether it’s morally justifiable instead of, simply, the reasons why it’s so uncommon.
If you look at IAmNorReal’s next reply, it reads as if they’re defending polyamory generally, and that’s because they are. There’s no reason to talk about how friendships can be complicated too unless they’re trying to defend the concept of polyamory in its entirety. In other words, the two of you end up walking away from the initial conversation and into an entirely different one.
Anyway, I’m sorry for interjecting. I promise I’m not trying to bully you or lecture. I gotta go make dinner.