Since religion provides no basis for morality, religious folks like to bandy this 'moral relativist' term about in relation to atheists as a kind of defence mechanism to avoid acknowledging the moral bankruptcy of their own beliefs... but can a 'moral relativist' ever really exist?
To be a moral relativist means that you think something might be morally wrong in your opinion but morally right for someone else, if they think it is. So, for example, you might think it morally abhorrent for someone to rape your 10-year-old child but if another person thinks it's morally right then you would say to that person "Oh right, if you think it's OK then it must be morally right for you to do it, so go ahead".
No, in reality no-one ever actually thinks like that, so 'moral relativism' doesn't exist and never has done.
2007-11-09
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