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They are saying the exact opposite. They don't like assigning a moral judgement either way to a business that isn't hurting anyone. You were replying as if they had said that instead of something being bad, it was good. That is not the same thing. Treating something as neutral is not the same as saying something is an opposite.

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Keyword "don't like". Moral judgement also.

No, that's ridiculous. Saying you don't like assigning moral judgements to companies is essentially saying you think they should be looked at as neutral.

If someone says they don't like cauliflower, that isn't a moral judgment. You are not understanding what is being said or what it implies.

You fail to see the distinction but on a meta level they are the same thing. Labeling something as a "moral thing" and saying you don't like is a judgment. Value? Moral? Esthetic. . We are semantic hair splitting here.

You are just reasserting the same thing without backing it up in any way. Saying something shouldn't carry any moral weight is not a moral judgement because who would it be judging?

Correcting someone about is not casting a moral judgement. Saying a piece of a system meant to create and capture some value doesn't need to be ascribed good or evil is a statement that can be taken at face value. Trying to say everything is a moral judgement that someone else is creating a false dichotomy is just projection.

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