100,000 Protestors... Angry mobs of students...

innerSpaceman · 03-28-2006, 02:25 PM

What, then, is the magic number that signifies societal acceptance? Need it be 30% of the population? 70%? What makes something "the norm?"

(besides, ya know, being Todd's bf)

Alex · 03-28-2006, 02:29 PM

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.

03-28-2006, 02:25 PM	#1
innerSpaceman Kink of Swank Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Inner Space Posts: 13,075	What, then, is the magic number that signifies societal acceptance? Need it be 30% of the population? 70%? What makes something "the norm?" (besides, ya know, being Todd's bf)
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Alex . Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 13,354	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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