RE: Demonstrated Preference, Socialism, and Steemit
If there is more than one available option, how is it not a choice?
Money certainly is a necessity when one wants to achieve certain goals, but choosing means to accomplish ends doesn't imply that you were compelled to choose a means.
Who forces people to use money? When is force administered as a punishment for not using money, and by whom?
Compulsion is an action of a moral agent. How can a biological limitation be a moral agent?
If morality is subjective then when is rape or slavery moral? How does deviance from morality imply subjectivity of morality rather than immorality?
Isn't the statement, "life is too complex for that kind of black and white thinking" itself an example of black and white thinking? In what way is my thinking black and white?
How does the ability of someone to rationalize theft in terms of survival mean that theft isn't immoral? How is morality determined by majority vote? If morality is determined by majority vote, does that mean it was moral to nuke Japan or gas the Jews?
How is it not a choice if there is more than one option? You literally just asked how choices are choices, meaning you just admitted it was a choice.
Lack of shelter, hunger and humiliation aren't moral agents; they're conditions one chooses to change through the use of scarce means. When we talk about compulsion, we're talking about the actions of moral agents; not the conditions which presuppose life itself.
It is universally impossible for any human to consent to a violation of their own bodily integrity without consent, therefore it is objectively and universally immoral to violate the bodily integrity of another human without consent.
If you disagree, when would rape or slavery be moral?
If both choices are equally bad how is it a choice?
Lack of shelter, hunger, humiliation - are all different kinds of force.
Define morality in a way that is not subjective.