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Old 03-28-2006, 02:29 PM   #52
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I don't know. You're the one saying that a sufficient level of social acceptance makes something right. So I think you should be the one putting forward the number.

I will agree that generally if enough people do something that society will generally consider it morally acceptable. This magic number is called "a majority of those who get to establish policy." In our society this number is around 45 million people. In North Korea this number is Kim Jong-Il from the waist up.

But I will still argue that there can be differences between what a society allows and what is "right." A majority of the population allowed slavery, that doesn't mean slavery was right.
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