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Using amoral implies there is at least a consensus on what is moral and they are acting opposite to it. This is an entire conversation on what is even moral to begin with. It is smearing someone by associating your "morality" to a particularly grey area.

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It’s literally the opposite. “Opposed to moral consensus” is immoral. “Grey area” is definitionally amoral.

You’re complaining because “amoral” still sounds like a bad thing to call someone. And it is, exactly because history doesn’t tend to see that “it seemed like a grey area at the time” defense very charitably.

Wait, is that right?

I thought your definition of immoral there is correct. But I thought that "gray area" means a person has morals, but the goodness of the topic is tricky to decide, while "amoral" just means the person doesn't even have a "right and wrong" scale, or doesn't care.

This just in folks, we can't actually condemn an action until the entire field of ethics is solved. There is actually zero difference between good and bad things dril tweet etc.

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