RE: If you're pro-life, how far do you take that?
August 8, 2018 at 12:56 pm
(This post was last modified: August 8, 2018 at 1:01 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
We could only say that roman society thrived and prospered if we remove all the slaves (and anyone who didn't prosper) from consideration in the category which is..by definition, the aggregate.
The underlying contention is that there is some harm to an individual which doesn't harm society, but the example refers to a civilization instead..and -is- an example of harming society by harm to individuals....that just so happened to harm the civilization as well.
I could be less literal, and less specific..and rely on whatever someone thinks is obvious...but......?
I suppose there might be some asshole somewhere we could knock on the head and neither society nor our civilization will notice...but one does wonder whether a society that allows this might be incurring a hidden cost that expresses itself in the fullness of time, as the example of slavery has time and time again.
The underlying contention is that there is some harm to an individual which doesn't harm society, but the example refers to a civilization instead..and -is- an example of harming society by harm to individuals....that just so happened to harm the civilization as well.
I could be less literal, and less specific..and rely on whatever someone thinks is obvious...but......?
I suppose there might be some asshole somewhere we could knock on the head and neither society nor our civilization will notice...but one does wonder whether a society that allows this might be incurring a hidden cost that expresses itself in the fullness of time, as the example of slavery has time and time again.
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