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Absolute morals?

Name: Anonymous 2007-07-31 1:35 ID:4mIYxDQA

For example, if a stranger rapes or molests someone you love, is there any circumstance under which it would not be wrong?

Name: Anonymous 2007-07-31 2:50 ID:AZDK5y/z

and I would argue, that yes, absolutes depend on human beings.  Mathematics?  it's a system of interacting symbols.  And what is a symbol without a mind?  Nothing...  so, before humans started crawling upon this pale blue dot, there was no 1 + 1 and it did not equal 2.

Every other absolute?  What are they exactly?  Cases in which we categorize or place judgments and/or values upon, observations and extrapolations...  What matter such things to an uncaring universe?  We could say that absolutes exist in physics, if we don't wade into the murky waters of Quantum this and that, but anything we know about physics and the universe and everything is entirely tainted by the fact that it's humans observing and thinking about these things.  We look at existence in the tiny snapshot of it that's available to us, and all our perceptions are inherently bias towards the human perspective by things like time, distance, space...  Who knows what the universe is like once you take two steps out of the 3 inches of space in your skull that contains everything you are and everything you experience?  No one does...  and I doubt anyone ever will.

"In the end, we experience only ourselves."
-Nietzsche

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