▲ 868 ▼ Trump admits he didn’t have to tear down East Wing for ballroom, but just wanted to (piefed.cdn.blahaj.zone) submitted 9 months ago by io@piefed.blahaj.zone to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world 131 comments fedilink hide all child comments https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-melania-upset-east-wing-demolition-b2862932.html
[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 months ago (1 child) Yes. Yes it does. The bounds of what society considers acceptable or reprehensible changes with time, location, and culture. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk -2 points 9 months ago (1 child) So if morality is subjective, then who are we to judge the holocaust? It was acceptable in that time, location and culture. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 1 point 9 months ago Oooh, nice, we’ve gone straight from a holier-than-thou categorical rejection of the concept of moral relativism to an attempt to use a straw man fallacy involving the Holocaust to categorically settle the entire scope of a topic that has been debated by philosophers smarter than either you or I for literal millennia. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk -2 points 9 months ago (1 child) So if morality is subjective, then who are we to judge the holocaust? It was acceptable in that time, location and culture. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 1 point 9 months ago Oooh, nice, we’ve gone straight from a holier-than-thou categorical rejection of the concept of moral relativism to an attempt to use a straw man fallacy involving the Holocaust to categorically settle the entire scope of a topic that has been debated by philosophers smarter than either you or I for literal millennia. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 1 point 9 months ago Oooh, nice, we’ve gone straight from a holier-than-thou categorical rejection of the concept of moral relativism to an attempt to use a straw man fallacy involving the Holocaust to categorically settle the entire scope of a topic that has been debated by philosophers smarter than either you or I for literal millennia. permalink fedilink source parent
