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To: MrB

So your tagline is relative to what you believe to be true? Or can you prove that it is the absolute truth?


13 posted on 05/08/2008 8:38:16 AM PDT by stuartcr (Election year.....Who we gonna hate, in '08?)
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To: stuartcr

No, I assert that my tagline is absolutely true when dealing with a postmodernist thinker.

I do not believe that what is true for me might not be true for you.

It’s either true or not. If it’s not, prove it and I’ll modify my truth statement or abandon it altogether as not true.


16 posted on 05/08/2008 9:03:54 AM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: stuartcr

Now I see where you are coming from.

If there are no absolutes or no moral absolutes, who then - relativistically speaking - decides what is morally right or wrong?

Society?

If there are no absolutes, and no absolutes can be proven, then a society that says that certain acts are homophobic, racist, sexist, bigotted, greedy, etc, would be superior to a society that says that those same certain acts aren’t.

It would all be relative.

Some might say that this is an extreme view.

But the word ‘extreme’ would - based upon relativism - be a societal construct, produced by a society that was a social construct.

Again, all relative.


17 posted on 05/08/2008 9:24:05 AM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist (Keep working! Welfare cases and their liberal enablers are counting on you!)
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