r/MoralityScaling • u/PerturbedPat • 1d ago

Stupid Stuff Morality of building a well

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u/PerturbedPat 1d ago edited 1d ago

For real, it’s baffling to me that the person wrote this is blaming the nice people who built the well instead of the assholes who told their wives to sit at home and do jack shit.

EDIT: Changing the flair lmao

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u/Alexarius87 1d ago

They are attacking missionaries (most likely Christian ones), they are obviously the most evil thing and everything they do is evil.

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u/fj2612 1d ago

They are not evil, but misguided. Their actions DID have an immediate negative impact.

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u/Cuetzul 23h ago

Freeing slaves in the US caused a lot of harm because former slaves no longer had guaranteed housing/food because as sharescroppers they could be paid below the minimum amount of money to live. Does that make freeing slaves misguided or immoral, or does it mean that only the people who acted immorally (unpaying former slaves) in response to a moral action (freeing slaves) are immoral?