Things that make you go GRRRRR.... (Part 2)
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Iheartshoes
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PiXeL_PuNk001001
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Then you can't say one insult is better than the other
mollyF
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I'm not great at explaining things so bear with me.
One insult is that someone is acting like a 6 year old, the other is they're acting like they're mentally retarded.
You say both a 6 year old and a mentally handicapped person are morally worth the same.
If we then say calling someone retarded is worse, we're saying its worse to be mentally handicapped than a 6 year old. In doing so we're saying the 6 year old is "better" than a person with a mental disability.
I'm guessing everyone would say being handicapped is worse than being 6 but I think what I'm doing is critical thinking or something. Whatever, the point is that when society says something is more acceptable than something else its saying one thing is more or less desirable than something else and therefore "better" or "worse"
One insult is that someone is acting like a 6 year old, the other is they're acting like they're mentally retarded.
You say both a 6 year old and a mentally handicapped person are morally worth the same.
If we then say calling someone retarded is worse, we're saying its worse to be mentally handicapped than a 6 year old. In doing so we're saying the 6 year old is "better" than a person with a mental disability.
I'm guessing everyone would say being handicapped is worse than being 6 but I think what I'm doing is critical thinking or something. Whatever, the point is that when society says something is more acceptable than something else its saying one thing is more or less desirable than something else and therefore "better" or "worse"
No. It's none of those things.
It's that behaving as if you DO have a disability when you don't is reprehensible.
Genuinely being handicapped is not reprehensible. Behaving as if you are when you're not is.
To use a humorous example, a severely handicapped person might not understand that pooping in public is not acceptable. So it's not morally wrong of a MR person to poop on the ground. But as a mentally competent adult I DO know it's wrong to poop in public, so it IS morally wrong if I do it Does that clear things up????
It's that behaving as if you DO have a disability when you don't is reprehensible.
Genuinely being handicapped is not reprehensible. Behaving as if you are when you're not is.
To use a humorous example, a severely handicapped person might not understand that pooping in public is not acceptable. So it's not morally wrong of a MR person to poop on the ground. But as a mentally competent adult I DO know it's wrong to poop in public, so it IS morally wrong if I do it Does that clear things up????
I never said having a handicap is reprehensible as such. Also slightly confused how you can say I'm wrong for explaining why I said something since that would mean you know why I said it better than I do
Your example also doesn't fit. To stick with it though if someone who wasn't handicapped pooped on the ground while someone else was acting like a child and you said the pooping on the floor was worse you'd be saying acting like a handicapped person is worse than acting like a child. By doing so you're saying acting like a handicapped person is more reprehensible than immitating a kid, so the kid is worth more as its more acceptable to act like one
I was never comparing acting like being handicapped to actually being handicapped in terms of worth I was comparing two seperate insults.
Your example also doesn't fit. To stick with it though if someone who wasn't handicapped pooped on the ground while someone else was acting like a child and you said the pooping on the floor was worse you'd be saying acting like a handicapped person is worse than acting like a child. By doing so you're saying acting like a handicapped person is more reprehensible than immitating a kid, so the kid is worth more as its more acceptable to act like one
I was never comparing acting like being handicapped to actually being handicapped in terms of worth I was comparing two seperate insults.
Lala11
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Ok, I've finished having a huge mental overload and can actually think, so here goes.
I'm not saying either of them is worth more.
I'm saying it's about whether you know better. That is what makes acting like either of them wrong when a non disabled adult does it.
To stick with the pooping example...when the handicapped person, or indeed kid, does it, it's no reflection on them because they don't know better. If I do it as a 21 year old woman with a normal IQ, it is a reflection on me because I know better.
I'm not saying either of them is worth more.
I'm saying it's about whether you know better. That is what makes acting like either of them wrong when a non disabled adult does it.
To stick with the pooping example...when the handicapped person, or indeed kid, does it, it's no reflection on them because they don't know better. If I do it as a 21 year old woman with a normal IQ, it is a reflection on me because I know better.
plushy_bear
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Damn.