# Disputing my warning/suspension

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**Created:** [September 9, 2021, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disputing-my-warning-suspension/950393 "2021-09-09T19:07:26Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 9, 2021, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disputing-my-warning-suspension/950393/79 "2021-09-09T23:40:00Z")

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> [@thorny\_locust](#):
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> It’s a form that’s going to wind up destroying any philosophy or morals at all, IMO.

And it has, to some extent. As I’ve written above I tend to disavow any hard and fast rules such as X is always wrong. The logical conclusion is that one comes to question whether _death_ or _suicide_ is always wrong, that philosophical abyss that stares back at you. It was a question I used to struggle with.

As written above, it is really not _safe_ to confront such questions in isolation.

> [@thorny\_locust](#):
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> That weird edge case doesn’t make x not wrong. X is still wrong, even if it’s possible to imagine a situation in which not-X is even more wrong.

I don’t know if I agree with that. Given a decision between two or more choices (X, Y, Z, etc.), the least-wrong choice is the right choice. So in that sense yes, X is _right_. But that only applies to the specific situation.

~Max

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