Talk:Moral equivalence

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This article is pathetic. Sorry.— Unsigned, by: 188.223.66.117 / talk / contribs

Feel free to edit it. IT'S A FUCKING WIKI. Scream!! (talk) 10:41, 24 January 2012 (UTC)

I am missing some type of reference to when things ARE fair to compare. To say one can compare A and B, one must list how this comparison is made. A statement saying 'purely looking at the death toll, Stalin was worse than Hitler' seems fair enough to me. If you indeed compare eating meat to being hitler (and initiating the holocaust) that is not fair, until you perhaps say which part of hitlerism has certain reflections in meat eating. Sweeping statements are the enemy, but I see no problem drawing parallels if you specify where your comparison starts and ends.— Unsigned, by: 86.27.247.117 / talk / contribs

I would agree that Stalin was worse than Hitler (at least in number of deaths caused), so that's a simple statement of fact (or opinion). But the point is that this is not any kind of justification for Hitler. I don't think for a moment that that was what you were trying to do, but that is the way this kind of argument is usually used.--Bob"I thought this was supposed to be "Rational" Wiki?." 09:44, 1 February 2013 (UTC)
This article is great. There aren't really any rules for "moral equivalency", it's a free-for-all. But this is the first time I've seen the concept so well skewered. 178.38.63.108 (talk) 00:32, 16 November 2014 (UTC)

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http://rationalwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Moral_equivalence&diff=1239178&oldid=1239167

Why was that removed? It's a clear example of moral equivalence. I added it without accusation and I can discuss this without accusation. –Aleksandr(a) Ehrenstein, Jewish Bolshevik 18:08, 18 September 2013 (UTC)

NAZI RAPE NAZI RAPE RAPE NAZI! Hipocrite 18:25, 18 September 2013 (UTC)
wp:Ishi might differ. 'Fraid I'll have to side with Weaseloid—the edit could use a re-write in the least. Check also wp:Native Americans in the United States and wp:Population of Native California, the latter saying, "Estimates range from a low of 2.1 million to a high of 18 million (Dobyns 1983).[3][4][44][45] By 1800, the Native population of the present-day United States had declined to approximately 600,000, and only 250,000 Native Americans remained in the 1890s.[46] Chicken pox and measles, endemic but rarely fatal among Europeans (long after being introduced from Asia), often proved deadly to Native Americans.[47][48][49][50]" On the other hand, there might be more Native Mexicans in Mexico than ever before. (For music, there's Tribe called Red—Aboriginals do aboriginal chants and drums to Industrial.)Civic CatTalk to Civic Cat 18:31, 18 September 2013 (UTC)
"people are annoyed with me, i think i should do the thing they hate and talk about the holocaust and how much it sucked"--Mikal | lakiM 18:33, 18 September 2013 (UTC)
Ignoring blatant trolling, at least the part about lynching should stay. I should point out that the Native American estimate is still as low as 2 million, hardly approaching the Holocaust. –Aleksandr(a) Ehrenstein, Jewish Bolshevik 18:41, 18 September 2013 (UTC)
Why are you arguing which genocide was worse?--Mikal | lakiM 18:43, 18 September 2013 (UTC)
First off, I get the feeling I'm in the middle of some kind of private trolling-joke: bullets flying around me, but fortunately I'm not hit yet. True, 6 million is 6 million, all recorded. Aboriginal deaths and what they died of is less certain—but could be as high. Similar to what went on with blacks. Keep in mind stats for America, i.e. the US, and that of the Americas. Also keep in mind that it's sort of going on, or was until recent history, such as wp:Category:Massacres in Guatemala. Disclosure, I've yet to read this article, will do so later.Civic CatTalk to Civic Cat 18:56, 18 September 2013 (UTC)
You are. IE is unable to stop talking about NAZI RAPE. It's basically a joke at this point. Hipocrite 18:58, 18 September 2013 (UTC)

I don't want to generate controversy. I won't push for adding it back, unless someone else thinks it's going to be legitimate. –Aleksandr(a) Ehrenstein, Jewish Bolshevik 00:49, 19 September 2013 (UTC)

"I don't want to generate controversy." LIAR. You are incapable of going a week on this website without generating controversy. You fucking thrive on it. you love it. I have no idea what you added to the page in question, but I will bet you any sum of money that it had to do with Nazis. Or rape. Or Nazis getting raped. Or some other sick combination that's relevant to nobody else but you. PowderSmokeAndLeather: Say something once, why say it again?.Moderator 02:31, 19 September 2013 (UTC)
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