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Even “unprivileged” people are moral actors that can take their high road at personal cost.

When I was starting out in my career it was "take the first job offer that comes along or starve/become homeless" so no, sometimes the personal cost would be unreasonably high to expect of anyone

This effectively does mean that I was not a moral actor at the time

Naw that’s cope. You make your choices, own them.

Would you have stolen or murdered to avoid being homeless? Would that have been a morally blameless act?

Christ - that's a strawman if I ever did see one haha.

Most people will steal to avoid being homeless.

What do you think privilege is?

A vague word that can be spun to your own perspective based on a tower of other vague words and personal values.

I don’t think we’re talking about slaves are we?

It's slavery or nothing, eh? Whatever happened to nuance?

It got dismissed as only being an option for the privileged.

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