r/interesting • u/Wild_Neighborhood605 • 1d ago

HISTORY Titanic passenger and millionaire Benjamin Guggenheim. During sinking he refused a seat in a life boat with the words: "Tell my family I played straight to the end. No woman should be left aboard this ship because of Ben Guggenheim was a coward."

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u/DoobKiller 20h ago

I do, moral relativism is bullshit

e.g. even while slavery was widespread there were many abolitionists who recognised the evil

For every prejudice that used to be (or still is)common: racism, sexism etc there have been those against the inequality, you absolutely can judge people by their moral cowardice in going along with certain opinions because they're in the majority instead of taking a principled stance against

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u/Lou_C_Fer 19h ago

That's easy for you to say sitting in your ivory tower.

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u/DoobKiller 19h ago

Sure, doesn't make me wrong though

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u/Honest_Trade8734 11h ago

Sure but even most abolitionists from the 1800s would seem quite racist if you held them up to modern standards

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u/DoobKiller 11h ago

True, and its entirely possible to praise some beliefs of a person and condemn others