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You're still begging the question and acting like there is a fixed morality.


Nobody is begging any question. The answer is that it is for YOU to decide. I'm sorry if that's not a simple, yes/no answer for you, but the world isn't like that.


I'm really at a loss to understand your reply.

My original question was "How would you like people to square [being accountable for the actions of their employer] with providing for their families?"

You've yet to say anything except implying that there is a single, black-and-white moral compass that everyone is capable of following in its entirety. There are no employers that have no moral shortcomings. Telling people that they're immoral for not destitute themselves is rather pointless and leads to a nowhere discussion because it started nowhere.

Moreover, it's a fairly pointless expectation that everyone is I don't know what country you live in, but I can ask with certainty the same with respect to citizenship: How can you be a citizen of a country that's perpetrated atrocities. In that case, it's even more clear that there is no option -- there is no country that hasn't committed atrocities.


"My original question was "How would you like people to square [being accountable for the actions of their employer] with providing for their families?""

And the answer to that is, "It is up to those people to decide that. No one else can do it for them."

"You've yet to say anything except implying that there is a single, black-and-white moral compass that everyone is capable of following in its entirety. "

Wrong. Nobody but you has done that. You are the one demanding answers for how people square these things."


Now that I understand the confusion....

A) I do not hold a firm position on moral absolutism.

B) All I am saying is that there are so many variables that go into employment that you need to make this moral calculus yourself.... but simply having a family should not be an excuse to avoid the moral calculus completely. You often still have choice.


Begging the question would be something like you disagreeing that any choice exists at all.


You know, for some reason I had it in my head that "begging" meant avoiding. Off to reëducate myself!


Common mistake!




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