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Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos
I've never been principled, so I couldn't have written a principle. Or, at least, I didn't mean to.
And if I'm right, we don't have to apply this to every historical figure. We just don't.
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Well, you did. You wrote a statement about how we ought to act - we should do X, we shouldn't do Y. That's a moral principle. You can't apply a principle only in cases where you feel like applying it - it's either right or wrong. If you want to honour some people who've done terrible things and not others, you're just being arbitrary.