(July 17, 2024 at 1:34 pm)Disagreeable Wrote: If it's bad for society then it will inevitably cause people suffering.
It is bad for society if it happens too widely. That doesn’t mean it causes suffering in specific instances. Same as my views on voting - I don’t because I don’t know enough about the parties involved, I don’t want to try to learn because for me to feel like I know enough involves stupid amounts of reading. So I don’t vote but also recognise if everyone did that it would cause our modern societies major issues. That said, my single example of non-voting won’t influence other people to do the same, nor will it swing a vote.
Same sort of thing when people say same sex sexual behaviour is sinful as if everyone did it then society wouldn’t exist. Other than the obvious rejoinders, my favourite is to say that “being a milkman must be immoral then, as if everyone were a milkman society would collapse”.
