(June 10, 2012 at 7:54 pm)Adjusted Sanity Wrote:(June 10, 2012 at 7:46 pm)StatCrux Wrote: So, if a society allowed the staging of gladiatorial tournaments would it not be complicit in the event? In the same way a society allowing semi naked, attention seeking, deliberately provocative halfwits is complicit.
As long as the gladiators weren't forced to participate, I wouldn't have a problem. It all comes down to if participation in debauchery is voluntary or forced. Forced is bad. Voluntary is good.
Also there is a big gap between killing for sport and showing a little skin.
So you have no value or moral considerations other than whether it is voluntary or forced? All individual voluntary behavior should be acceptable to society in general? careful now, once you change your mind and say "oh but it can't harm others" you're introducing levels of "censorship"
