(October 4, 2018 at 8:13 am)polymath257 Wrote:
I don't think that refusing to shake hands with someone is akin to beating ones wife to death. And it is wrong and should be condemned; even if the structure of the society allows it. And by generalizing moral obligations into a category of compassion (which I don't necessarily disagree with; we ought to be compassionate) your not solving the problem, but just pushing it back a little farther.
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