Originally posted by justme
I think the post is bullshit, Thorn. Why can't you condemn an obviously condemnable act?
Moreover, you reduce the motivation for not committing an unethical act to fear from punishment. If the only reason people won't do wrong is because they fear retribution than they will feel free to do wrong if they know they can avoid retribution. Perpetuating that kind of principal has nothing to do with creating an ethical society.
I think you misread my intent, if not the post.
Why don't I condem it? I think my post makes it vary obvious that I condem it. What it says is that I won't debate it. The answer for that is two fold. The merits of the argument make themselves, thus there is no reason to debate something so obvious. The second is, in circumstances where something is so obviously wrong yet someone has reached the point where they have decided to do it anyway, nothing is going to dissuade them. Not my opinion, not yours, so why bother?
As to the fear of punishment. Again, I am just stating the obvious. I am not condoning it, nor making a threat of it myself. I am simply saying that we know for a fact that there are some fairly off center types that can be involved in 'this thing of ours', on both sides of the equation. Why risk becoming a target of a socio-pathological type by outting their info? That's all I am saying. Seems like common sense to me.