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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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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

In the fourth line down, after etc, it should say wouldn’t, not would.


20 posted on 05/08/2008 9:31:41 AM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist (Keep working! Welfare cases and their liberal enablers are counting on you!)
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

Yes, I believe society decides what is morally right or wrong.

I don’t understand the superior aspect you mention.

Yes, it is all relative.


24 posted on 05/08/2008 9:50:37 AM PDT by stuartcr (Election year.....Who we gonna hate, in '08?)
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