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To: exmarine
Murder, rape, incest, and burglary cannot be declared wrong by a moral relativist if they are right to me (these acts may be legally wrong, but in relativism, laws can have no objective moral basis, therefore to say something is illegal is not to say it is morally wrong). A relativist can only say they are wrong in his personal view, but who cares about his opinion if I am a serial killer with my own personal ethic to follow? Besides, the word “wrong” is meaningless in relativism. A relativist might respond that situations are so diverse and complex that no one moral rule can be universal and I would grant this, however, this is very different from proving that relativism is correct. At best, this shows that absolute principles must be applied to different situations.

This argument actually makes my case. I have already demonstrated how God sometimes approves rape and child-killing. Thus, if you follow God, you cannot say that these things are unequivocally wrong either. You see, we're all in the same boat where moral relativism is concerned.

686 posted on 02/08/2002 10:46:44 AM PST by The Green Goblin
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To: The Green Goblin
This argument actually makes my case. I have already demonstrated how God sometimes approves rape and child-killing. Thus, if you follow God, you cannot say that these things are unequivocally wrong either. You see, we're all in the same boat where moral relativism is concerned.

Huh? My argument refutes moral relativism. What are you talking about?

690 posted on 02/08/2002 10:51:42 AM PST by exmarine
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