I’m going to go ahead and be “that guy” here, and point out that calling this act “morally repulsive” is pretty weak tea. You’re saying that the morality you grew up with finds this unacceptable. But not everyone has the same morality, and that’s OK, because morality is a pretty narrow construct.
It would be a more damning criticism to call this deeply unethical, because ethics are different standards from morals. They apply to everyone by definition.
And this probably sounds really pedantic and pointless, and I don’t expect the red team to give a flying fuck, really… but it’s exactly this kind of confusion that makes it possible for these monsters to rationalize what they do. They have no language to distinguish morality from ethics, and so have assumed their particular flavor of morals are in fact the only ethical standard.
Until civil society can internalize the difference between morals and ethics, we are doomed to have to fight this kind of thing, forever and ever, Amen.
