Moral-relativity

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moral-relativity

Title text: Now, we just need to unify it with quantum ethics and we're good to go.

Votey

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I'm a moral relativist.

Like, you don't believe in the concept of moral truth?

No. I base my ethical system on my velocity relative to earth.

That makes no sense.

It's the only view that makes sense

The closer I am to lightspeed relative to other humans, the more they appear to me to be living their

The more fleeting their lives, the less significant they

Seem to me.

Lives in an

Instant

How does one assign personhood to a creature that might live and die in the span of one breath?

I just don't think, for instance, you should be allowed to kill someone just because they have a slower reference frame.

What quaint newtonian morality!

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My theory why people get more misanthropic

-3 D onplanes.

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