I felt bad about using it as the example in my comment, feeling the OP should have picked a different example, but did it anyway because the OP did it. Agreed this was an error, we should use Nazis if and only if we actually mean Nazis, and find a better go-to example. Thoughts on what this should be? Kant’s literal ‘murderer at the door’ feels arbitrary and lame to me.
Something that would capture the feeling I think most people have in the Nazis example would be that a soldier from a foreign occupying army is looking for a peaceful dissident hiding in your attic. Genuinely not sure if that’s actually a great example for a thing like this.
I felt bad about using it as the example in my comment, feeling the OP should have picked a different example, but did it anyway because the OP did it. Agreed this was an error, we should use Nazis if and only if we actually mean Nazis, and find a better go-to example. Thoughts on what this should be? Kant’s literal ‘murderer at the door’ feels arbitrary and lame to me.
Something that would capture the feeling I think most people have in the Nazis example would be that a soldier from a foreign occupying army is looking for a peaceful dissident hiding in your attic. Genuinely not sure if that’s actually a great example for a thing like this.