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if you were alive in the early 1800's when cotton was king
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If by "you" , you mean me personally, then it's a hypothetical question.
So hypothetically if I was a land owner dependent on slave labour to produce my cotton then yes I would probably be inclined to argue that slavery was moral. If I was one of those damn interfering northern yankees I would probably find it immoral.
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Are we bad people for using machines just because it's the most economical choice of our time?
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Ok so again hypothetical, what if by the use of machinery now we deplete the natural stocks of oil and there is no replacement for it.
Would not future generations look back on us and say that we were greedy and selfish and acted in a immoral fashion by not considering the future generations needs.
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Would that mean machinery is immoral throughout all time, or just in the future?
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To do that would I not have to make a case for a universal morality.
And if I was successfull in doing so where would that leave your arguement?
Because clearly slavery was once morally acceptable but now is not and your argueing that it should would fly in the face of an accepted universal morality.
I can give many examples of where morality has changed over time. Athene points out one with women ,slavery is another .
We can easily look back into the past and find examples of things that would by todays standards seem immoral so there are probably things happening today that future generations will find immoral.
I would still like you to answer the question below, or come up with a reson to accept a universl moral.
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Well what does then? I would of thought not liking something would be a prerequisite of believing it immoral or wrong.
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