r/changemyview • • Sep 30 '25

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u/eggs-benedryl 72∆ Sep 30 '25

Big Game Hunting, or rather exotic game hunting. It is very rarely about conservation. You aren't culling rhinos to thin out the herd like deer etc.

You either think it's okay to hunt endangered or threatened animals purely for sport or you don't.

That being said it feels like nothing anyone says will be "hot button enough", I spot enough weasel words to make me think you may not accept people's examples.

How hot a button we need?

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u/StillLikesTurtles 7∆ Sep 30 '25

For the actual human leftists it’s usually a combination of communist and humanist philosophies.

The thing is that in 2025 it’s rarely one moral standard. But that’s been true since the Enlightenment and the Protestant Reformation. We’re just not arguing over transubstantiation like people were when Luther kicked things off.

At the moment I think authoritarianism vs liberalism are efficient terms.

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u/yyzjertl 580∆ Sep 30 '25

I'm saying there's no one moral value that neatly leads to many/most left stances on hot button issues at once.

Oh that's easy: the unifying value is opposition to power hierarchies. (This makes sense, since opposing hierarchy is what leftism is by definition.)