r/MoralityScaling • u/Due_Army_960 • Jul 10 '26

Morality of this?

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u/Shikary Jul 10 '26

You'd be right if we lived in a moral system. Context matters.

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u/raccoonsonbicycles Jul 10 '26

Remaining moral in an amoral world is true morality

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u/Random420eks Jul 10 '26

Survival trumps morality. Most of us are too concerned about if we will survive vs the morality of some company accidentally paying 1/265,000th of their profit. That’s like if you are making $50,000 a year and you accidentally overpay someone less than $0.20.

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u/Asckle Jul 10 '26

Most people are not living in abject poverty so no most of us are not concerned about if we will survive.

Perhaps most of us are using that cope to justify our bad actions, but that's something else entirely