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How should we respond to Ima Racist, who says "Whites ought to be treated well and blacks ought to be treated poorly -- just because of the difference in skin color"?

    { 1 } - Ask Ima whether Albino blacks (who have light skin) ought to be treated well -- and whether Caucasians with very dark tans ought to be treated poorly.
    { 2 } - Tell Ima that skin color obviously isn't morally relevant here.

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1 is correct!

How should we respond to Ima Racist, who says "Whites ought to be treated well and blacks ought to be treated poorly -- just because of the difference in skin color"?

He'd also have to desire that if he and his family were black then they'd be treated poorly.

To dramatize this idea, we could tell him Hare's delightful story about the color-changing germ that is about to infect the world. The germ turns originally white skin permanently black and originally black skin permanently white. Does Ima really desire that if this happened then the newly white people be treated well, and the newly black people (including himself and his family) be treated poorly?

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2 is wrong. Please try again.

How should we respond to Ima Racist, who says "Whites ought to be treated well and blacks ought to be treated poorly -- just because of the difference in skin color"?

    { 1 } - Ask Ima whether Albino blacks (who have light skin) ought to be treated well -- and whether Caucasians with very dark tans ought to be treated poorly.
    { 2 } - Tell Ima that skin color obviously isn't morally relevant here.

This is obvious to me and to you. But how do we make it obvious to Ima?

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