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Originally Posted by Hector Cerif
I'll give a read later today.
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Not sure what you're saying, I wouldn't marry a racist or a christian.
But you would, I'm assuming, marry her if she was friends with a racist. (Assume that you never meet said racist) Which, given your views that "association= impropriety", this is immoral. So you are being inconsistent.
Suicide Bomber-->Christian-->You
Racist-->Wife-->You
(Feel free to change racist for some other immoral act if you're not comfortable with that one.)
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Good question, I don't know. I feel like maybe Charles Manson (or anyone like him) is a special case, because he is insane. So if you are spending time with him after work or whatever that might be charitable on your part.
Ugh. You keep getting caught up in the specific examples for some reason. Feel free to exchange the person for someone who committed some minor moral transgression. [Again, examples are going to be difficult until I understand how you determining what is, and is not, moral.]
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But if you said to me, "I really like Charles Manson, I think he's a really good guy, we're really close friends," then yeah, I'd probably look at you a little funny.
So, "looking at me a little funny" amounts to a moral judgement?
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Do you think that people shouldn't make character judgments based on your friendship with Charles Manson?
It's going to depend on how you're using "
should" here. Making an overarching, quick judgement will almost certainly be a useful heuristic, but that doesn't mean it's an accurate one. In other words, you can make no accurate assessments about my character that are not directly affected by the friendship, i.e. you can probably ascertain that I don't consider friendship as something which implicitly supports that person's immoral acts (or at the very least, that I don't care), but that's about it.
Last edited by asdfasdf32; 12-25-2012 at 04:32 PM.