"There is no room in such a worldview for nuance."
Not everything needs room nuance. It seems to be a theme is some places, HN being one, where there is a need to not assign morality as fact. But at the extremes, we are allowed to collectively decide something is good or bad as an absolute, and agree that anyone that disagrees is disturbed in some way.
Slavery was wrong, all throughout history.
Hitler was evil.
I know the arguments for allowing space for nuance or the dangers of assigning morality absolutely. Normally I agree. But sometimes, something is so close to absolute that we can discard any margin of error, because it doesn't change the conclusion.
We should almost always be careful to challenge or leave room for challenging our preconceived notions. But sometimes, just sometimes, there really isn't a need.
Edit: at least that's my opinion.
Not everything needs room nuance. It seems to be a theme is some places, HN being one, where there is a need to not assign morality as fact. But at the extremes, we are allowed to collectively decide something is good or bad as an absolute, and agree that anyone that disagrees is disturbed in some way.
Slavery was wrong, all throughout history.
Hitler was evil.
I know the arguments for allowing space for nuance or the dangers of assigning morality absolutely. Normally I agree. But sometimes, something is so close to absolute that we can discard any margin of error, because it doesn't change the conclusion.
We should almost always be careful to challenge or leave room for challenging our preconceived notions. But sometimes, just sometimes, there really isn't a need.
Edit: at least that's my opinion.