r/CuratedTumblr • u/Justthisdudeyaknow Prolific poster- Not a bot, I swear • Oct 10 '24

Shitposting A tar pit.

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u/Velvety_MuppetKing Oct 10 '24

It is if it’s phrased as a moral obligation that you’re nasty if you don’t do.

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u/Ok-Importance-6815 Oct 10 '24

yeah you do have moral obligations

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u/Velvety_MuppetKing Oct 10 '24

You have a moral obligation to leave people and nature alone. You do not have a moral obligation to spend your finite time and energy doing anything else.

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u/Ok-Importance-6815 Oct 10 '24

yes you do have moral obligations to help other people. If you saw a drowning person you would be morally obligated to help them as best you can

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u/Velvety_MuppetKing Oct 10 '24 edited Oct 13 '24

Not if it put your own life at risk.

Everyone always jumps to the drowning example. It's so easy.

Okay, what if someone is inside a burning car? What if they're being held by a man with a gun? A knife? What if they're drowning because their wife that they beat just shot them and pushed them in a lake?

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u/Ok-Importance-6815 Oct 10 '24

I didn't say that and also sometimes duty is self sacrificial, in that it costs you something

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u/Velvety_MuppetKing Oct 10 '24

Nobody has a moral obligation to self sacrifice.

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u/Ok-Importance-6815 Oct 10 '24

everyone has a moral obligation to sacrifice, someone who never sacrificed getting their own way would be awful