Re: Philosophy questions - Morality & Moral Theories
Forcing it on others (which many people advocate, implicitly or explicitly) is oppressive.
Talking about it, or using it as a means for making your own decisions, is not oppressive.
The theory itself, obviously, is not oppressive. The "pure" form of it may not be oppressive. Using utilitarianism for a basis of policy is oppressive.
Your "moral implementation" is a trivial case (in that any decisions you make for yourself that don't get imposed on others cannot be aggressive) and clearly not what I was talking about.
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