If you do not believe in moral absolutes how could you possibly call the horrible things that Adolph Hitler did or what child molesters and abortion clinic bombers do wrong? After all, every person rightly sets their own moral standard. What those people did was "right" in thier eyes. If one states that the actions of any particular individual is horrible or good or bad he/she is making a morally absolute statement. If you agree that each person decides and sets his/her own moral standards then wouldn't you have to say that a gang member is doing good when he "caps" someone around children and bystanders and rapes someone? After all (in his eyes) he is "improving" himself and his status in the gang. When a rich oil exec steals from employee retirement funds he is doing good because is improving his own pocketbook?
If you do believe in moral absolutes, you believe in one right and one wrong for most every situation, what is THE moral authority?
Is it the Bible?
2006-06-16
18:04:10
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