(August 17, 2019 at 11:22 pm)Abaddon_ire Wrote:Lol not to mention it didn't benefit society in fact quite the opposite(August 17, 2019 at 10:00 pm)Acrobat Wrote: I’m not defending slavery, you’re the one that questioned why I don’t see wellbeing as a reasonable basis for morality.Yup, as predicted, apologetics for slavery. Take a long hard look at yourself.
You can use wellbeing, for a variety of things that are immoral (slavery) as well as non-moral, hence the reason I don’t find it to be a reasonable basis for morality.
I can agree that slavery is immoral, but is very well possible a reasonable argument could be made that it was beneficial to the wellbeing of society as whole especially in the long run, but this doesn’t make it any less immoral.
Is slavery immoral now? Yesterday? Last week? Last year? How about 2,000 years ago? Was morality somehow different then?
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