It was ours and now it was theirs and that made it wrong.
Does that make it the wrong choice then?
The factors that make it generally immoral to kill a human are the same factors that make it generally wrong to kill a deer: making a sentient creature suffer and, more important, taking from that creature the thing that is of greatest value to it, the remainder of its life.
Or, as Mr. Colbert put it on his show, Mr. Herndon discovered "a few simple spreadsheet errors, and a couple of little staggering omissions that made it slightly fundamentally wrong.
Even if bounded national democracy is all we have realistically – "convergence of preference on units", as Kymlicka calls this, a mere convention in other words – that makes it no less wrong normatively.
"Educated liberals are the only group to say, 'I find that disgusting but that doesn't make it wrong,' " Dr. Haidt said.
It's their subjective life experience, but that doesn't make it right, that doesn't make it wrong.
But that doesn't make it wrong.
