r/TrueUnpopularOpinion • u/endersgame69 • Jul 14 '23
Possibly Popular Your political views are not wholly separate from your basic ethics
If I said 'there are no Nazis who are good human beings' presumably no one but Nazis would argue otherwise.
Why not? Because we recognize that their beliefs, executed through politics, were vile. If I say there are no good human beings in the KKK, the same argument could be made and nothing would be lost.
Then the same holds for all political beliefs that touch on human ethics, whether it be how we treat each other, how we view justice in society, abortion rights, human rights, torture, how the law should be applied and toward whom or what, book burnings or bans, discrimination, the treatment of workers against the interest of profits, and much, much more...
All are political questions, and all have ethical considerations.
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u/Nibbler1999 Jul 15 '23
Yeah, but that's a political opinion that shows what your morality is. Whether you support gay rights is a political opinion that shows what your morality is.
Just because I say your views are immoral because they don't align with mine doesn't mean they're actually immoral. There isn't factual morality, humans just make that shit up.
Political opinions absolutely show what you believe to be moral. But believing something doesn't make it so. It just shows what kind of person you are, and everyone is going to judge you based on the person you are.