I think your choice of “contemporary example of inadequate ethical heuristics” weakens the post as a whole, by invoking the specter of the sort of third-rail issue where the discourse is relatively well-modeled by conflict theory. That is, I was loving the post until I got to that part and my brain was suddenly full of maybe-I’m-about-to-be-eaten-by-a-tiger alarms.
I think your choice of “contemporary example of inadequate ethical heuristics” weakens the post as a whole, by invoking the specter of the sort of third-rail issue where the discourse is relatively well-modeled by conflict theory. That is, I was loving the post until I got to that part and my brain was suddenly full of maybe-I’m-about-to-be-eaten-by-a-tiger alarms.