AfterEpictetus
2d ago
this anthropomorphising of animals is and pretty much always will be extremely suspect
I agree in general, but moral judgement does seem like the one area where this could be justifiable, at least for some moral frameworks.
AfterEpictetus
10d ago
I don't think you're wrong, exactly, but I think you're ignoring an important dimension of the disagreement. That being the distinction between positive and negative rights (freedom from vs freedom to).
The traditional American view of rights is almost entirely negative, and each of the amendments in the bill of rights that grants a specific right frames it as a negative right (generally the right to be free from some government action).
Rights during/post FDR tend to be framed as positive rights (new deal/great society), or possibly "entitlements".
Your distinction is important, but I don't think it can be understood properly without examining the underlying disagreement about rights.
AfterEpictetus
1mo ago
The median deportee entered the US without any visa. I would consider this a purely civil matter.
I believe this is incorrect. What you describe is a criminal matter (illegal entry). The median illegal immigrant has overstayed a legal visa, which is indeed solely a civil matter
If you believe in objective morality, or at least morality provided by something external (probably god), that's not automatically a problem.
In fact, the fact that they wouldn't share these moral sentiments would be a pretty good case that they are not honorable
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