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    Someone needs to make a bad luck Brian meme out of this. Places mine to stop enemies from approaching Steps on it himself
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    Just because not all of Nazism is totally extreme beliefs does not mean that none of it is. Typically normal ideas (restoring your country to greatness) do not cancel out your thoughts of genocide lingering just beyond. In addition to that, it does not matter the quantity of people who share the beliefs, but the quality of beliefs that are held. And Nazi beliefs are very bad, overall. As for my part about North Korea, I never implied anything, or at the least, I didn't mean to. The US, while on generally bad terms with NK, is still acting rationally towards them. In diplomacy relationships are often strained and typical diplomatic protocol isn't always followed. Take the US and Iran in the 70s, when Iranians stormed the US Embassy in Tehran. If things go south, then "rational" diplomatic protocol could be thrown to the wind. As for the broader issue, it would be irrational to destroy North Korea, even if some people want to. Why, you ask? They pose no threat to us, they have not provoked us or our allies, the positive consequences would be minimal and the negative ones possibly catastrophic, and they themselves are not without powerful allies (China, India, possibly Russia), so we should not harm them as of now. I have no personal problem with NK, but my language is often blunt. I've seen people saying we should destroy them now, and honestly that's a load of garbage. So yeah.
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    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NazismUnless someone is totally ignorant of Nazism, they can't misjudge it. Racism, genocide, and conquest are a part of their beliefs. There is no way around it. If someone understands what Nazism is, they understand what their beliefs will probably lead to. No two ways about it. Respect and rationality are not the same, no matter the context. If you don't understand that, I implore you to look at a dictionary. If we respect North Korea, we will honor their requests and act in a way befitting of two countrirs, regardless of how they view each other. However, the only "irrational" behavior would be to destroy them. I suppose you could argue that it is irrational to treat them poorly, but that's just how diplomacy works. And that is to say, a lot of the time it does not.
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    Sure.
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    I feel like you confused a couple things. Juging by your post, when you say ideology, it would make more sense to replace that with "means to an ends". Nazi ideology, no matter how someone tries to spin it, is restore Germany to glory, take over, kill Jews, etc. It is, from almost every view, wrong. However, Hitler's end (restoring Germany to glory) was not so bad in itself. The means he chose (trying to take over the world, blaming and killing Jews) were much more controversial and generally evil. He certainly could have taken a more moral path to restoring Germany.Also, how exactly are we respecting the morals of NK when they threaten us? Are we doing them a favor by not wiping them off the face of the map? I don't see how we are respecting their 'morals'. Respect isn't not blowing them up. It's called being rational, lol. Though some would argue we should just get it over with, because it will happen one day anyway @Augestein Still waiting for you to address HOW you know that conflicting views stem from subjective morality. Just because we can't see something doesn't mean that it isn't there. Objective morality could very easily be naturally infused in our conscience, and it gets diluted by our biases, experiences and the like. Until there is VERY strong evidence for no objective morality, my points stand. Also, as an aside, I'm assuming that it could still be considered objective morality if it was objective for every act, correct? Sort of like rule vs. act utilitarianism, but on a much broader scale. As long as it can't be changed for that specific case, it's still objective.
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    Ok, I kinda understand where you are coming from. I'm familiar with the MGS series, but not well-acquainted with it. I don't agree with your statement that a morality that is best for everyone should be pursued, because a morality that is great for one person might be terrible for the next. Otherwise, I see what you're saying.
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    In response to your spoiler in the first part:
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    Again, too lazy to format this properly. This first part is my response to Erdall: Err...morality is not an agreement between people. Try "pact" or "contract". Morality is one's personal beliefs about right and wrong. Now, morality can be USED to try and find the best solution between parties (i.e. if I believe it is immoral to steal something from my friend but I really want it anyway, we could hypothetically reach a solution). I can kinda see where you're going with this, but your English is a little rough. No offense meant, as I see you are from Spain, so unless you were a born English speaker, I don't expect you to have it totally down. Your second part seemed to miss my point entirely, so I will ignore it. As for the snickers thing, I knew what you were saying, but it seemed somewhat out of context. I may come across as kind of stern, but this is Serious Discussion after all. :P I'm confused about your last part, but it seemed that you were acting cordially, so I will give you the benefit of the doubt. I feel like you keep beating around the bush on this, so to speak. You keep addressing the fact of conflicting moral beliefs, and no one, myself included, is debating you on that. But how do you know there is no objective morality? Is there any proof that there is not a definitive list of right and wrong? No. Now, that may sound like an argument from ignorance, but I think our intuitions/conscience may be rooted in some objective morality. Of course, that statement in itself is a gateway into a whole different debate, so I will leave it alone. My point is that I've yet to see someone address morality instead of perceptions of such.
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    Welcome to the Forest, and enjoy the one million generic greetings you get. Also, yor stay.
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    This statement might have an amount of truth value to it.
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    Necrofetish Also, the answer to the question is potato
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    Naw it's obviously...huh. SS doesn't even really have that many good looking females, at least compared to other games. Why am I even here? @Rapier should I sig your post? I'm half tempted to.
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    People having subjective perceptions of morality does not mean that morality itself is subjective. Secondly, being moral =/= trying to change the world? Unless you are the type of person who thinks every little kind act is changing the world, I fail to see the relevance here. Again, subjective perceptions of something does not mean that said thing itself is subjective. If someone says that colors are a fabrication of the Illuminati, and I say that they are not; they are just colors, that does not mean that that is subjective. Whether or not they are is fact, and that doesn't change just because someone says they otherwise. Seriously, have a snickers? Where did you even get that? Also, you sound more like a cynicist who is done with the world than someone who is interested in debating morality.
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    And this is relevant to the topic of objective vs. subjective morality how? We are talking about morality here, not changing the world. Kinda a big difference between the two.
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    The pirate chapter was 7.8/10 not enough water
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    @ Moniker Because I'm too lazy to change the quote where my part is the only part in it Wow, that's a weird thought indeed. There is no way I would be here, because all my other FE games I got from looking for them, not randomly seeing them, and all my friends who kinda got into FE got into it because of me.
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    Yeah, I think you are right. As far as intuitions, they are a good starting point, in my mind. For instance, as we've already used, the typical human being won't fly a plane into a class of kindergarteners for fun, because it is intuitively wrong to us. But where you go from there seems to be up to your own personal moral/ethical preference.
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    When I was 9, I got Pokemon Emerald for Christmas. I've never stopped loving Nintendo since.
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    You made the exact same mistake I did earlier. You're talking about PERCEPTIONS of morality, not morality itself. Just because we view morality differently doesn't mean that morality isn't objective.
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    Lol next chapter is ridiculous, and meant to be so. Have fun.
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    Wow. Drayano was trolling hard with this one. That kinda really sucked.
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    Enlighten us.
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    If this is a thing...#FE8 #nostalgia #mahbois
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    http://i3.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/796/749/0ec.png
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