(August 11, 2024 at 1:52 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(August 11, 2024 at 1:43 am)Ivan Denisovich Wrote: Raoul Wallenberg was morally virtuous. Vegans merely make different dietary choice. One that I wouldn't but to each his own.
While veganism is a dietary choice, there are plenty of people who make that choice for morally virtuous reasons. Saving the planet, shit like that.
Boru
I could claim that I don't drive a car for morally virtuous reasons, like saving a planet but the truth is that I simply don't have drivers licence thanks to bad eyesight. Similarly some vegans might think that they're doing something moral when in fact they're just looking for their own health.
I'm against ascribing moral values to things like dietary preferences or not driving car. Otherwise thousands of people end to be "morally virtuous" and yet millions still starve in this ocean of goodness.
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