Nina Kalinina

TIL BBC used to have an "Ethics" portal where they tried to cover moral issues from different angles. It includes pages that claim, among others, that "Contraception is inherently wrong", and this lovely passage on hunting:

• hunting provides human employment
• hunting preserves Britain's cultural traditions
• hunting provides sport and pleasure to many people

The portal is "archived and no longer being updated", but the pages are still up. I kind of see why one would want to have a list of all sorts of arguments, but... Idk, this "we're being centrist in the debates" might be a bit too much for me.

The "There are people who say that Contraception is inherently wrong" page: https://www.bbc.co.uk/ethics/contraception/against_1.shtml

BBC - Ethics - Contraception: Moral case against contraception

This article sets out the moral arguments against the use of birth control.

Mar 11 at 6:33pmWeb
Show threadYvanMar 11
@nina_kali_nina There's all levels of madness there... but in particular I hope that any folks arguing against it as being "unnatural" live their lives stark nekkid in an unimproved cave and eat only raw foraged foods.
Show threadMind ShamblesMar 11
@nina_kali_nina It's fine having opposing views for things, but the BBC suggesting hunting is good becauzse of employment and has been part of historic culture is never a valid argument. Its about as valid as saying the French still use the guillotine as its cultural, and keeps carpenters and basket weavers employed
Show threadshift/resetMar 11

@nina_kali_nina I remember years back listening to a bbc philosophy podcast, pretty sure it was the philosopher's arms https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0150pj1

and I got to the episode about moral disgust. They had an example of a guy buying a dead chicken at a supermarket and porking it, to mix meataphors, and by the end of the podcast they had most of the studio audience agreeing that this was somehow alright.

I was never able to take the host seriously after that

BBC Radio 4 - The Philosopher's Arms, Series 1, Moral Disgust

Sitting in a pub, Matthew Sweet discovers how real life is full of philosophical problems.

BBC
Show threadGabriele SveltoMar 11
@nina_kali_nina the people that "contraception is inherently wrong" are living proof of the damage that contraception could have averted
Show threadmhdMar 11
@nina_kali_nina Isn't the BBC, being publicly funded, basically forced to do things like this?
Show threadNina KalininaMar 11
@mhd I'm not sure; I think it requires certain amount of dishonesty
Show threadYukari Hafner Mar 11
@nina_kali_nina As always, centrists pull us into heck one "compromise" at a time.
Show threadebxMar 11

@nina_kali_nina ...this goes so much farther than "being centrist in gur debate", claiming contraception increases std spread with no study to back it up, while conveintly not mentioning that condoms are like -gur- thing that's being used to fight transmission of stds

good job being terrible as usual, bbc!