Veganism

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

I think there might be a factual difference between assault and self defense....

Don't look now, but you're making the point that morality might be rooted in this or that context. Hardly objective if the same act can be acceptable and uncceptable depending on circumstance.

Precisely. By way of example, there’s the recent rat killing carried out by my wife. Norway rats are an invasive, destructive species and pose a significant danger to our native plants and animals. What she did was a ‘right’ action. Had she beaten the neighbour’s dog to death simply because it was looking at her funny, that would be a ‘wrong’ action.

Although clearly not on a par with the spousal abuse scenario mentioned earlier, it does seem to point out that moral actions are based not so much on some hoped-for objective standard, but on circumstance. Even those cases we in this time and place find utterly repugnant are not (and never have been) universal.

Boru