Agreed 100%. I will add it should be kept in mind that one can use that as a defense for morally objectionable actions. As others have mentioned Nietzsche said very much the same about the complexity of morality and dangers of viewing it in a lense of simple good and bad, and the Nazi party, playing with the context, used those words to justify their actions to a lot of people.
Not at all saying that means the alternative is better, and binary morality has led to likely more horrors in the past done it the name of an objective "good", just more a reminder of how most ideas can be twisted to justify horrible actions and how it's important to stay vigilant on the topic of understanding morality in every case. Yes, probably something that doesn't need to be said for most of you and certainly not something that hasn't been said before, but someone might need to hear it. The idea of morality being a gray scale can and has been used to justify horrible actions like most ideas can, and when someone makes sweeping statements about the nature of morality as if they have an objective and clear understanding of it, one way or the other, it's usually a good idea to take a close look at what they're doing. Solid chance of fuckery about
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Agreed 100%. I will add it should be kept in mind that one can use that as a defense for morally objectionable actions. As others have mentioned Nietzsche said very much the same about the complexity of morality and dangers of viewing it in a lense of simple good and bad, and the Nazi party, playing with the context, used those words to justify their actions to a lot of people.
Not at all saying that means the alternative is better, and binary morality has led to likely more horrors in the past done it the name of an objective "good", just more a reminder of how most ideas can be twisted to justify horrible actions and how it's important to stay vigilant on the topic of understanding morality in every case. Yes, probably something that doesn't need to be said for most of you and certainly not something that hasn't been said before, but someone might need to hear it. The idea of morality being a gray scale can and has been used to justify horrible actions like most ideas can, and when someone makes sweeping statements about the nature of morality as if they have an objective and clear understanding of it, one way or the other, it's usually a good idea to take a close look at what they're doing. Solid chance of fuckery about