skelitas:

i’m basically “pro-do whatever you want as long as you’re enjoying yourself and not hurting other people”

see, i agreed with this for a long time too- and this conception of morality is the ideological foundation of most of contemporary society- but it’s actually a horrible moral guideline which can be used to justify actions which maintain oppressive hierarchies, or which exploit those hierarchies in order to coerce and control people.



the moral framework you describe may be able to combat certain abuses of power- but it is blind to the ways that social hierarchies made “abuse of power” possible in the first place.



we’ve been indoctrinated into a moral framework which leaves us unable to perceive or combat the social systems which facilitate abuse and coercion.

liberation will be achieved not when people can “do whatever they want,” but rather when people have been freed from stratified systems of power.

