# Furthering Philippa Foot **URL:** \ **Category:** Ethics\ **Created:** [June 15, 2026, 10:56pm UTC](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/t/furthering-philippa-foot/1367 "2026-06-15T22:56:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 84
**Author:** ![Tom\_Storm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c57346/32.png) [@Tom\_Storm](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/u/Tom_Storm)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2026, 10:42pm UTC](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/t/furthering-philippa-foot/1367/84 "2026-06-16T22:42:17Z")
> [@Jay](#): > > The issue you raise might even begin before that, depending on what the Spaniard would say if you asked them, “Yes, but is it _also_ cruel?” If the answer is no, then we’re back to sentimental education – which is a type of “identifying moral concerns,” I would say. To me, this sounds a little like one of Mao Zedong’s “thought-reform” camps. What interests me in some of these cases is that (1) someone determines that X is morally wrong, and (2) they believe they have the right to change the minds of those who disagree. How, for instance, do we determine that the burqa is not a respectful religious and cultural observance but institutionalised sexism? It seems to me to be the height of modernist thinking to believe that we can readily make that determination. --- _[View the full topic](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/t/furthering-philippa-foot/1367)._