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Even “unprivileged” people are moral actors that can take their high road at personal cost.


When I was starting out in my career it was "take the first job offer that comes along or starve/become homeless" so no, sometimes the personal cost would be unreasonably high to expect of anyone

This effectively does mean that I was not a moral actor at the time


Naw that’s cope. You make your choices, own them.

Would you have stolen or murdered to avoid being homeless? Would that have been a morally blameless act?


Christ - that's a strawman if I ever did see one haha.


Most people will steal to avoid being homeless.


What do you think privilege is?


A vague word that can be spun to your own perspective based on a tower of other vague words and personal values.

I don’t think we’re talking about slaves are we?


It's slavery or nothing, eh? Whatever happened to nuance?


It got dismissed as only being an option for the privileged.




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