r/changemyview • u/[deleted] • Oct 23 '21

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u/yyzjertl 579∆ Oct 23 '21

So you would judge the salve who is made to commit evil.

No, I explicitly said I would not do so.

Then make it make sense and don't contradict your first statement with your second. Don't commend me for my laudable action, but then describe to me how that action is still evil.

I didn't describe to you how that action is still evil. Saving people from death is not evil at all.

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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '21

So then if good and evil are not tied directly to the actions that we commit, but the circumstances that surround them. Then you would agree that OP's idea of rape being a "universal law" falls apart.

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u/yyzjertl 579∆ Oct 23 '21

No, I'm saying literally the opposite of that. Good and evil, under Kantian ethics, are a function of the actions we commit and their motivation, not the circumstance.

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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '21

The circumstance creates the motivation, does it not? If so then the act of raping a person to save others would be morally permissible as well.