Quote Originally Posted by Finix View Post
Wrong? From whose perspective? Your's? Society's? This scene operates outside the social norms.
One can look at it from the point of view of nature.
somethings are always wrong. for example abusing a child. Yes there are those who say "if society decided (child abuse/rape/gassing concentration camp inmates) was okay then it would be acceptable"
Natural Law would say clearly it would NOT be right it would always be wrong. that in the absence of laws about it what the Nazis did was wrong. In fact the Nazis made laws which in fact said what they were doing was right. They made these laws in their own democratically elected parliament.

So the idea of "social norms" while appealing are not absolutes. Yes people should respect peoples traditions but if those traditions support child abuse rape slavery or genocide then they are wrong.

So where does this lead us? Well it isn't from my perspective or yours or anyones relative subjective perspective. Nor indeed from any societies perspective. What they are doing is wrong, just as exterminating people was wrong when Nazis did it. That is called the "natural law" argument and gets around the "ther is no law against it so it cant be wrong" issue and the arguments of moral relativism and subjective norms.

that said i dont think the instigators of Banners Broker put as much thought into their ethics as the Greek Philosophers or Early Christians or fathers of democracy put into their systems.