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   Matthew Sheffield (mattsheffield@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 03-Mar-2024 06:59:14 JST Matthew Sheffield

   🧵 Reactionaries evaluate moral choices through identities rather than principles.

   What others may see as hypocrisy is actually consistent commitment to the power dynamic they obsessively follow.

   The rightfulness of an act is not determined by moral principles but by identity of the person or group committing it. #philosophy

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     Matthew Sheffield (mattsheffield@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 03-Mar-2024 06:59:14 JST Matthew Sheffield

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     Reactionary morality flows downward in a hierarchy. The higher one is, the more rightful their actions are.

     With some variations it is as follows:
     1) The maximum leader (Trump, Putin, Netanyahu, etc)
     2) Political party
     3) Wealth
     4) Religion
     5) Race
     6) Sex
     7) Locality

     In this framework, it is not wrong for Donald Trump to engage in actions that violate Christian teachings. Nor is it wrong for wealthy people to do so.