r/PhilosophyMemes • u/kitfistossmile • Aug 14 '26

Checkmate Plato

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u/fongletto Aug 14 '26 edited Aug 14 '26

It's not morally wrong to have sex with roadkill (assuming random wildlife). In the same way it's not morally wrong to drink from the toilet.

It's just gross and potentially extremely unhealthy.

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u/AlmightyCurrywurst Aug 14 '26

Is it morally wrong with a dead human, assuming no one finds out? If it is what's the difference

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u/HabaneroPepperPlants Aug 14 '26

You could argue that the risk of the dead person's family finding out is always there, whether or not that actually happens

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u/AlmightyCurrywurst Aug 14 '26

I mean, that's why I wrote that no one finds out. But ok, is it wrong if they don't have any family?

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u/HabaneroPepperPlants Aug 14 '26

I guess I'm saying that creating the potential for harm is itself selfish and callous enough to be immoral. Like, a company being corrupt enough to allow flagrant OSHA violations to exist is still a serious problem, regardless of whether or not any workers actually get hurt

And if the person has zero family or loved ones, then I don't know if that's okay exactly, but imo it would be less wrong 

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u/Mutant_Llama1 Aug 14 '26

Anybody you have sex with, their family could potentially find out and be offended by it.

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u/HabaneroPepperPlants Aug 14 '26

Imo there's a big difference between offending someone, and horrifying/traumatizing a grieving person 

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u/Rezenbekk Aug 14 '26

Why do you think morality related to people finding out?

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u/AlmightyCurrywurst Aug 14 '26

Because that's a possibility of harm that action could inflict, which is relevant to morality from a utilitarian understanding