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If they want to say, “I think this theft is justified,” that’s a coherent position.

That’s what they did… And then you complained that people were being too flexible with their morals.

You can keep shifting the goalpost now or just accept you didn’t word your OC very well.

You do not get to have a moral framework that changes depending on who benefits from the outcome.

I do, though, is the thing. As does all of society. We always have and we always will. And you’re lying to yourself if you think you don’t take advantage of that flexibility yourself.

it would still be murder unless there was a legitimate justification for doing so. The morality of an action cannot be determined solely by how much we dislike the target.

So in other words… There’s nuance. It’s not just how much we dislike the target, there’s other stuff to consider too. We need

Context 😲

Either theft is wrong regardless of who the victim is, or your moral standard changes depending on whether you like the target.

Amazing that your ‘gotcha’ is just two false statements.

Theft isn’t wrong regardless of the victim - it’s nuanced, just like all crime. That’s why we have very complicated legal processes to determine guilt and appropriate punishments.

Our morals don’t change depending on whether we like the target - it’s that our judgments are based on context.

The cool thing about ethics, morals, principles, etc… They’re all made up. We invented them. They have no objectivity (as far as we know) and therefore can and have changed based on our feelings. “Ethics” is just humans agreeing to do things a certain way because it makes us feel good, or doing things the other way makes us feel bad. There is no objective truth to it that you can so easily plug in a problem and get an objective answer.

Or is the world you want to live in just completely binary? No room for nuance?