• @aidan
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    Currently, as far as I know, there is only one strong argument against the death penalty, and it has to do with moral proscriptions against treating the death of a person as a spectacle, which I notice nobody mentioned.

    Nah I think not killing innocent people is a pretty strong argument, death being a spectacle doesn’t really matter to me- someone killing someone is much worse than the part where they post it on LiveLeak

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      15 months ago

      If you’re so against killing innocents, I assume you’re vegan. Or… is your morality as twisted and inconsistent as I suspect?

      • @aidan
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        -25 months ago

        Or I care about human life and not chicken life?

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          So your morality is arbitrary, and at least we can both agree that the chicken has more reason to live than you do.

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            So your morality is arbitrary

            Yours isn’t? Where does it come from?

            both agree that the chicken has more reason to live than you do.

            You’re clearly not trolling

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              Your morality isn’t arbitrary?

              This is literally nihilism.

              I’m genuinely happy to discuss metaethics, but I’m getting a sense that you don’t actually care about ethics very much, given your nihilism.

              • @aidan
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                This is literally nihilism.

                No, it’s not.

                Nihilism requires intentionally rejecting morality. Accepting that any belief is inherently arbitrary, but still caring about that, is not nihilism

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                    Nihilism is the belief that morality is arbitrary

                    No, that simply isn’t the definition of nihilism.