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pfortunyyesterday at 6:37 PM1 replyview on HN

Never qualify the person, only the deed. Because we are all capable of the same actions, some of us have just not done them. But we all have the same capacity.

And yes, I am saying that I have the same capacity for wrong as the person you are thinking about, mon semblable, mon frère.


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irl_zebrayesterday at 6:47 PM

> Because we are all capable of the same actions, some of us have just not done them

> And yes, I am saying that I have the same capacity for wrong as the person you are thinking about...

No one is disputing any of this. The person who is capable, and who has chosen to do, the bad deed is morally blameworthy (subject to mitigating circumstances).

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