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Comment author: ChristianKl 06 January 2014 10:31:18PM 16 points [-]

There are various countries in Africa where a majority of the population thinks that it's a good idea to punish homosexuality with death.

If you want diversity in moral opinions than you should create an environment where someone from such a country can freely talk about his morality.

I have a much better understanding of the moral position of a third wave feminist than I have and understanding of the position of someone with mainstream Ugandian morality.

I think I understand the third wave feminist even better than someone from China.

If you would want to someone represent the majority of humanity it makes much more sense to specifically write post arguing conversative positions that appeal to the majority of the world population than to try to be more accommodating to social justice warriors as there aren't that many social justice warriors in the world.

But I wouldn't advocate going down that road but instead advocate that people focus on the quality of arguments.