this post was submitted on 06 Dec 2024
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There's a quote from the Vietnam war (I wanna say Phil Caputo?) about morality being a measure of distance and technology. If you kill people up close with a bayonet, it's horrible. If you kill people from afar by ordering an airstrike (or denying people insurance coverage they need), it's more acceptable.
It's a vision of morality where we judge actions by how icky they would make the perpetrator feel by doing them, rather than the harm the actions cause to the victims. The Master's morality, I suppose?
Akin to how many people are fine with eating meat, less so with the butchering
It's cowardice. The worst kind of meat eater is the one who can't face the violence necessary for the habit but keeps doing it anyway.
The Killer's morality. Guilt is determined by how guilty the perpetrator feels