• RedFox
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    9 months ago

    You don’t feel like its not a reasonable example if we are talking modern day American politics in the same conversation with unions and minimum wage?

    I do agree there are some absolutes that cannot be tolerated. But, it gets difficult to articulate that because some people have such strong opinions about a particular topic, they consider it an absolute. Like murdering a child should never be tolerated would be an example of an absolute I think all of mumanity would support, but it was done during China’s one child policy. So some didn’t subscribe to that.

    I find political discussions with certain people hard because they believe their thing should be absolute, rather than up for negotiation, hopefully so both group kinda win instead of everyone loses.

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      9 months ago

      Murdering children wasn’t a part of the One Child Policy, but an unintended outcome from it. It was obviously a terrible policy because of its results, but it wasn’t done to murder children. That’s not a great example.

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        9 months ago

        I was not suggesting it was policy. I was suggesting it was an absolute viewpoint or a personal value.