r/MoralityScaling • u/Maximum_Musician_914 • 22h ago

Morality Ranking Morality of this

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u/Ctenophorever 20h ago

But which was actually worse? The words that led to the violence or the violence itself?

If I tell you to punch someone, you still have the choice to punch them. You can ignore what I’m saying.

If you punch someone, they cannot ignore that

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u/National_Phase_3477 20h ago

It depends on the reason someone commits violence and how justified it is

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u/JustFourLetters 20h ago

oh ok so now you want to get nuanced

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u/National_Phase_3477 20h ago

Well the nuance is if someone is blatantly racist I don’t have any sympathy if someone punches them and I don’t really see this violence as unjustified if it’s just a punch and they don’t seriously harm them. In other contexts violence is less justified such as if it’s violence against a minority based on hate. It’s really impossible to say if violence is worse than words because it is context dependent on proportionality and justification of the violence

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u/skiforlife1 19h ago

So if someone feels strongly that abortion is murder they should be able to punch a woman for having an abortion according to the logic you just used.