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Well I'm glad you/we are more enlightened than the hundred billion previous humans who all had complex moral reasoning facilities but failed spectacularly to use them. I guess Aristotle and Plato and Aquinas were just idiots who couldn't see the unambiguous, objectively correct moral standards that you know of intrinsically.

Edit: serves me right for phone posting; I have you muted on the desktop with an extension, seemingly for good reason



Really? Aquinas? A priest sworn to celibacy is supposed to be agreeing with you that adults having sex with 13 year old children is acceptable?


Yes. https://www.ccel.org/ccel/aquinas/summa.XP_Q58_A5.html

Twelve, actually. This was a completely normal opinion at the time, and also the law. You seem uninterested in engaging in any form of discussion, so that will be all from me.


That says nothing about morality. Only legality.




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