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Disclaimer: I don't work for any political party or organization. I believe independent writing and ideas are the purest and most helpful because they don't need to be filtered by the agendas of groups.

This webpage is full of videos and pictures that are designed to make people consider the impact of the monarchy. I'm not suggesting that all in the royal family's circle are bad but I do assert that their social norms that normalize privilege are regressive and detrimental to society.

Many people who hate the royal family would be surprised to find just how enabling they are of their agendas. Some of the media's most famous people have shown their support of the queen. Though many may brush this off, the truth is that our planet's future success is dependent on boycotting these people regardless of how talented they may be. Though many people think they don't need to hear this, the truth is that they have paid people who support this outdated social norm millions of dollars while they live cheque to cheque and hold themselves to a much higher ethical standard. It's common for people to feel they don't need ethical discussion, but the reality is that even the world's most corrupt people know they are corrupt. It takes intersection and discussion for many people to step back and realize what they have just done. I suggest you read this webpage and consider just how rampant the problem of normalizing birth rites has become. Consider what other areas there are in your life where people could use some ethical analysis. Remember ethics aren't the same as the law and this is what makes ethical discussions essential for human morality when lawmakers are corrupt and shift blame away from what should be such clear responsibilities and obligations.

https://freedomformerit.com/the-cases-for-a-meritocracy/monarchy

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If someone approached you and said they were thinking about attempting murder, and their reason was that they like challenging their intellect, they want to see if they’re smart enough to get away with it, they have no reason to care about the life of the victim, as the victims life adds nothing of value to the murderers life, and they don’t care if they get caught, because that means they weren’t smart enough to get away with it, in which case their intellect failed and they failed their own challenge, what ethical argument could be made to say this person is wrong? How could you judge this person or their actions as “wrong”?

My own conclusion is that they aren’t doing anything wrong, they’re completely reasonable in their actions and I can’t judge them. However, I have a different want that is incompatible to theirs. Whether it be a result of evolution or nurture, or both, I have developed a sense of empathy. Due to my empathy, seeing innocent people hurt causes me pain, I want to avoid pain, so I want innocent life to be protected because of my empathy. I feel that my want is just as reasonable as the want of the murderer.

Our two wants are incompatible, they cannot coexist and so one will ultimately be enforced over the other. Since only one can be enforced, if neither is more reasonable than the other, then neither has more reason to be enforced than the other. And if that is true, we cannot use logic or reason to enforce one, it simply comes down to who’s able to enforce theirs more.

People tell me this is a rather bleak conclusion, so I’m curious about two things.

  1. Is my conclusion wrong? Is there somehow a way to say protecting innocent life actually is more reasonable than the murderers position?

  2. Like I said earlier, I’m curious to hear different arguments to explain why the murderer is “wrong”, I’m new to ethics and want to hear arguments I’ve never heard before.

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