Morals

[andrewducker]

Following on from Allorin's post here, I'm intrigued as to whether peopel think that morals are principles that can be applied to situations or are situational (but you can generalise into principles) or something else...

[Poll #164321]

Comments

[allorin.livejournal.com]

Disagree.

The message can be the same, without the offensive image. The animals rights aren't protected any more by an offensive message than they would be without one.

[andrewducker]

I disagree that the message is the same without the offensive image. It may be possible to get a similar message across without the image, but it's not the same image. And it's almost certainly a less effective one.

People are very good at ignoring things, and sometimes it takes somebody holding (for instance) a dead Ethiopian child up and saying "look at what is happening, please help us." to make a difference.

Lots more people would be vegetarian if they saw a slaughterhouse. They intellectually know that their steak is hacked off chunk of slaughtered cow, but they don't really emotionall understand what that entails.