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You don't feel like its not a reasonable example if we are talking modern day American politics in the same conversation with unions and minimum wage?
I do agree there are some absolutes that cannot be tolerated. But, it gets difficult to articulate that because some people have such strong opinions about a particular topic, they consider it an absolute. Like murdering a child should never be tolerated would be an example of an absolute I think all of mumanity would support, but it was done during China's one child policy. So some didn't subscribe to that.
I find political discussions with certain people hard because they believe their thing should be absolute, rather than up for negotiation, hopefully so both group kinda win instead of everyone loses.
Murdering children wasn't a part of the One Child Policy, but an unintended outcome from it. It was obviously a terrible policy because of its results, but it wasn't done to murder children. That's not a great example.
I was not suggesting it was policy. I was suggesting it was an absolute viewpoint or a personal value.