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There are always two communities
involved in any moral decision. One is the "face group community:" my
tribe, my church, my village, my SSG. The
other is the larger society one may consider oneself to be a part of:
my city, my state, my religion, my nation, my fellow humans.
I
find it is almost impossible to violate face group moral standards. If
my church says God Hates Fags, I will drive to military funerals and
try to protest with my handmade sign. If my village says dark skinned
people in hoodies are unwelcome it is moral to shoot them.
It
is when face group morality conflicts with the larger society that
moral decisions may take us away from personal survival or community
survival. In both of the cases cited above the larger community may
take issue with the local morality and prosecute the shooter, or prevent
the protest. Even to the extent of destroying the face group community
or forcing the face group to adopt the morality of the larger society.
The major moral issues
that can shread a community occur when the larger community, the
religion, or the nation, tries to impose its moral standards on other
religions, or nations. Usually it takes a God to create "the other" that
is not considered "one of us" and therefore undeserving of moral
consideration, but there have been exceptions. These lead to the
ultimate moral violation where both individual and community welfare are
violated: war between the larger societies. Face group morality is
irrelevant. Choose to go to war or the Gulag.
Yes, 300 is fascist
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