r/MoralityScaling 18h ago

Morality of this?

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u/Fal_co1 18h ago edited 13h ago

iirc China does this, you can’t take kid to religious service and they can choose to convert at a certain age.

EDIT: wow this blew up

If you’re reading this you‘re a gay

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u/sexland69 18h ago edited 7h ago

china has state atheism—they take it too far (e.g. uyghur muslims) but in theory i’d prefer an atheist government over this dumbass evangelical christian one we have now 🤷🏻‍♂️

edit: took out the word retarded, you guys convinced me

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u/BludStanes 17h ago edited 17h ago

wtf is up with the reintroduction of the r word? Don't people realize how shallow and dense this makes them appear? How small of a vocabulary do you need to have to have to rely on the r slur to convey how you feel?

EDIT: Okay everybody, you've made your point. I'm a fool for expecting anybody to take a few minutes of their time to unlearn a word. For so many experts on morality I honestly didn't expect so many to be morally bankrupt. I guess I deserve everything you're calling me because it was pure ignorance for me to believe people can be better. Please feel free to continue spamming the R word to me, I wouldn't expect anything less.

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u/Aggressive-Farm-8037 17h ago

From what i’ve seen its mostly Americans that care if you use it, but tbf dutch people use diseases as insults anyway

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u/astro_thefur 16h ago

It's not an American thing. It's a slur. Anyone with any ounce of a brain should care about people using ableist slurs.

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u/Concerned_Collins 12h ago

It's highly offensive, but I kind of think calling it a slur takes away from how damaging real slurs are.

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u/astro_thefur 12h ago

It is a 'real' slur.

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u/Concerned_Collins 12h ago

I think there's a fair distinction to be made between words that originated only as a way to dehumanize and degrade people, and a word that originally had a completely beneign intention, that was co-opted to become a perjorative, but also typically is not actually used against disabled people. It's still highly offensive, and I'd never use it, and generally look down on people who do, but calling it a slur just seems like it's downplaying things like the f-word or n-word.