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Moral Realitivism

Name: Anonymous 2007-03-13 20:40 ID:pHcxFqGp

Today, a particularly insidious obstacle to the task of education is the massive presence in our society and culture of that relativism which, recognizing nothing as definitive, leaves as the ultimate criterion only the self with its desires. And under the semblance of freedom it becomes a prison for each one, for it separates people from one another, locking each person into his or her own ego.

Name: Anonymous 2007-03-16 8:04 ID:oapqn1Rx

>>33
Well if >>32 isn't actually going to tell me what exactly he thinks my beliefs are (he put words in my mouth, remember?) and tell me what his problem is with them, why exactly should I change my mind?

>>34
There are no conservatives here. Liberals believe in moral relativism because they are idiots as has been proven since it takes little thought to realise that some morals can be determinned logically from self-evident principles.

>>35
They say they are stupid for believing in god, yet they are also stupid for thinking all morals are relative.

>>36
Some morals are relative and some are universal. The golden rule is universal whilst the "having sex before marriage" moral is relative. For instance before modern medicine and 1st world economies when poverty was rife and women usually died during childbirth, being a single mother could be a death sentence and strict laws and social systems were enforced to make sure men looked after the women they impregnate. Nowadays this isn't much of an issue.

>>37
Why is toilet humour funny?

>>39
Even though >>26 might be a troll or a liberal apologetic, in his defense I think that was just a misunderstanding and he meant that there are both relative and universal morals. Generally how utilitarian a relative moral is depends on how it can be defined logically from universal morals. However sometimes situations are too complicated to define all actions rationally from universal morals and they must be defined empirically. This is where grey areas appear due to differring statistics.

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