Do you agree with Benito Mussolini?

Question

He said "If relativism signifies a contempt for fixed categories and men who claim to be bearers of an objective, immortal truth...then there is nothing more relativistic than fascistic attitudes...all ideologies are mere fictions, the modern relativist infers that everybody has the right to create for himself his own ideology and to attempt to enforce it...
1. Are you a moral relativist?
2. If you are, do you find yourself in agreement with Mussolini?
3. Or, are you different, is your brand of relativism somehow "good" for those around you?

Answer 1

1. Yep, sure am.

2. No, not at all. He believed that 'everybody has the right to create for himself his own ideology and to attempt to enforce it'. I disagree.
I don't think people neccessarily have the right to attempt to enforce their ideologies on others.

3. My 'brand' of relativism? I consider my definition of morality to be benign, positive, egalatarian and beneficial to those around me. I understand that it IS only my subjective definition, but I maintain that it is essentially benign and more 'good' than 'bad'. I find that many other people's morality is less benign, and less 'good' for the most part.

Answer 2

I believe we support each other in an above the law and on a positive side of relativism. The problem with what Moussilini stated is that is this also shows how he came to be on the side of Hitler. Since he believed that everyone should follow and try to succeed at their dreams and Hitler's dream was the extermination of the Jewish race then that would also lead to, for example, all the terrorists having their dreams fulfilled and both you and I, if you are not what they consider a true Muslim, dead.