I'm with Shell in that I'm pretty unconcerned with the overlap between politics and morality. I'm not even overly concerned about political philosophy. If government acts in such a way that it improves the lives of the people in governs, it is taking moral action.
A perfect example of this: As I mentioned in another thread, I just finished binge watching Ken Burns' documentary about the Roosevelts. In the Great Depression in the US, Herbert Hoover's administration did virtually nothing to ease the suffering of people out of work. His political philosophy was that economies will regulate themselves, and government had no business interfering. All well and good (as far as it goes), but when people are quite literally starving to death due to having no money, a government which does nothing is immoral. Franklin Roosevelt came frighteningly close to becoming an autocrat, but he mobilized government to put as many people back to work and to feed as many of the hungry as was possible. Whatever moral flaws people find in democratic socialism, Franklin was behaving morally.
Here endeth the lesson on Situational Ethics.
Boru
A perfect example of this: As I mentioned in another thread, I just finished binge watching Ken Burns' documentary about the Roosevelts. In the Great Depression in the US, Herbert Hoover's administration did virtually nothing to ease the suffering of people out of work. His political philosophy was that economies will regulate themselves, and government had no business interfering. All well and good (as far as it goes), but when people are quite literally starving to death due to having no money, a government which does nothing is immoral. Franklin Roosevelt came frighteningly close to becoming an autocrat, but he mobilized government to put as many people back to work and to feed as many of the hungry as was possible. Whatever moral flaws people find in democratic socialism, Franklin was behaving morally.
Here endeth the lesson on Situational Ethics.
Boru
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