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Outstanding!

I would say that our coexistence as human beings induces in us an ethical obigation to acknowledge facts of material existence--and inferences that follow directly from them--that present issues that affect the group as a whole: it is morally wrong to deny the existence of a material threat to the group based on an emotion or a belief.

Here are a couple of examples. It is morally wrong to deny that as a species we are on an environmentally destructive course, which will have dire consequences for all people. It is morally wrong to assert that the election was 'stolen' from President Trump, with no material evidence to support that claim, and to act on the basis of that claim as though it were undeniably true.

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Stephen Yearwood
Stephen Yearwood

Written by Stephen Yearwood

M.A. in political economy (money/distributive justice) "Please don't confront me with my failures/ I'm aware of them" from "These Days," as sung by Gregg Allman

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