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Your point seems to be : people have different moral frameworks. Mine differs to some others. This seems self evident.

That's exactly right. In this light, what one should and shouldn't according to a single person (what your last post was about) doesn't have any meaning when discussing what many individuals could value: that's on a higher meta level.

It becomes at best a statement of opinion, and at worst it can be taken as dismissive of the values of others.

Correct - its a statement of opinion. Yes, I think most of us are dismissive of some values of some others and that's OK.

> Yes, I think most of us are dismissive of some values of some others and that's OK.

I don't believe this is a very useful property of a conversation which is about trying to understand how the world squares with opinions that people can hold.

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