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Right Wing Bloggers on Race

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Solomon27/31/2010 6:54:04 pm PDT

re: #239 jamesfirecat

I’ll be worried that our intolerance of intolerance has gone too far when if someone announces that they’re a member of the KKK or a Neo-Nazi in a public place, they get beaten to a bloody pulp.

Then you’ll be worried far too late, for the Nazis prepared for the extermination of the Jews via dehumanizing propaganda first.

re: #251 jamesfirecat

“That a “moral superiority” exists between them is certain, because this was the choice faced by the unlucky members of X and Z. ”

Here’s my first problem, what neither moral system is superior to the other but instead the two are morally equivalent?

How can we be certain that Race X and Z while embracing the exact opposite moral systems, are not in effect embracing morally equivalent systems much as one might argue that while Andrew Ryan and Sophia Lambs moral systems have no intersection, neither is morally superior to the other as they are both equally repugnant?

The “what [if] neither moral system is superior to the other but instead the two are morally equivalent? ” is a special case of the general case, unless it can be proved that the special case is the only one that exists.

Finally I do feel that it rather is required for you to prove that specific examples do exist.

Because otherwise you’re arguing “what if?”

Even without proving specific examples, I think the derivation is useful simply because it shows that one cannot take the moral equivalence of different cultures, peoples, or races for granted.