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qwerty@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months agoEveryone has their own sens of morality, the way that the majority feels about something has nothing to do with the way that the individual feels about it. Otherwise anyone who holds an unpopular opinion or even the act of holding one would automatically make one immoral, and inversely having the same opinion as the majority would make one moral even if they are a nazi in 1939 Germany.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 months ago
If everyone has their own morality, I guess your feelings about the morality of taxes are not relevant to anyone else.
Thanks for proving my point that no one cares about what libertarians want.
qwerty@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
Your point was that if majority says something is good it is good and if majority says something is bad it is bad, which is not the case. There are plenty of examples where majority said that something is good and it was bad (genocides, oppression of minorities etc.) and when majority said something was bad and it was not (“witches”, science etc.).
My point was that you can’t use “majority thinks so” as a definition of what’s moral and what’s not.
I think taxation is evil, you don’t, we can talk about it and try to come to an agreement or agree to disagree, but our feeling on the matter don’t change the the facts that taxes are taking away sovereignty from an individual, that they are abused by politicians for the benefit of their families and friends, that they give unfair advantage to large corporations and stifle competition, that at the end of the day taxes are payed by workers and consumers and their biggest beneficiaries are banks and corporations…
You are free to think that everything I listed is good, but i’d appreciate if you told me why you think so.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 months ago
How do you define what moral separated from what societies agree upon? Again, does a god decide what is moral? Do you specifically decide what is moral? If you specifically are the arbiter, that again goes to my point that just because you think taxes are immoral, the fact that very few people agree with you mean you will never get your way.
qwerty@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
You decide what you think is moral.
I decide what is moral based on my moral compass. I think that taking any sovereignty from people is evil, sometimes necessary, but still evil. I told you why I think so, now you can tell me why you disagree.