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Was Robin Hood's point of view ethically sound?
First, there was no free market at that time. It was a feudal society. Secondly, Robin Hood's main motivation was to restore the rightful monarch and restore his own social position. The morality of ...
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Ethics of involuntary participation in an unethical hegemony
You cite some good examples. If you look at Das Kapital by Karl Marx, you can see that it is implicit that the worker is forced to participate in the capitalist system. They are metaphorically in ...
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What is the moral difference between saving a life and creating a life?
Read this Quora answer to a question about regret. A doctor, an army surgeon, answered. It seems he saved a man who had been injured by an explosive. 10 or so hours of surgery later the man was in a ...
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What is the moral difference between saving a life and creating a life?
To begin, the prevailing attitudes to abortion and other social issues are cultural, which means that you can expect them to be determined by a large number of factors, at least some of which may be ...
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What is the moral difference between saving a life and creating a life?
Why do existing persons take precedence over potential people
There are likely many philosophers who speak to this in the areas of morality, ethics, and theology.
One place where this is central is ...
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How do we measure progress in the diversity/equity/inclusion movement?
It depends on what your objectives are. It's pretty clear that life is riddled with all kinds of bias and prejudice, which probably accounts for some of the skewed outcomes we see, such as the high ...
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What does it mean to say "homosexuality is normal"?
Our current society in the West considers homosexuality normal or acceptable. A few generations ago we did not. Other modern societies consider it abnormal and unacceptable. It is a biologically ...
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What does it mean to say "homosexuality is normal"?
"Normal" and "Natural" are not simple ideas; they often include value judgements, sometimes as good and sometimes as bad. One needs to consider the context of their use to discern ...
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What does it mean to say "homosexuality is normal"?
There are variations in almost everything. In everyday language, if the extent or nature of a variation is to some degree striking, exceptional or especially important then we call it abnormal- often ...
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What does it mean to say "homosexuality is normal"?
Normality or normativity has two senses when applied to homosexuality. One is a biological sense, and the other is a cultural sense. In socially liberal societies, to say that homosexuality is normal ...
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