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Originally Posted by issybird
But expecting someone to respect a choice that he finds immoral is not at all warranted. There’s a chasm there, between respecting someone’s ability to choose and respecting someone’s choice. Such is society and such, one hopes, is how moral suasion works.
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So far as the other points in your post are concerned, I'm not going to endlessly repeat myself. It is quite obvious that we are not going to agree, nor does it seem likely that we can even agree to disagree.
So far as your above quoted statement is concerned, you seem to be confusing respect for someone's choice with agreeing with that choice. To respect someone's right to choose must involve respect for the choice they make, as opposed to agreeing with that choice.
What you describe is not how moral suasion, hopefully or not, works. It is how moral shaming works.