are moral values relative or absolute?

Answer 1

One should do one's best to be moral. It is a very complicated world with very serious problems. There are basic guidelines morally that are helpful, but the real world can be quite messy. One needs to know a lot about morality, and train oneself to be in control of ones emotions and actions. Pray/meditation, eating healthy. mind-body exercise, not overindulging, and looking for good inspiration where ever one can find it, will help one to be a positive factor in this world, guided and inspired by God. I don't relate well to either word "relative", or "absolute", because of how people tend to use these terms. I guess you use what moral values work the best under the circumstances, in doing the most good. If an absolute moral value works well use it. If the situation is exceptional or very complicated do your best with God's inspiration as a guide.

Answer 2

Relative

Answer 3

Both. Some are relative, e.g. is it okay to chew gum in church, is it okay to tell "white lies," etc. are subjective and depends mostly on the principles of individuals. But I believe that big things are absolute. Like for example, if someone took a bunch of infants to Pluto in the year 5007 and started a civilization there, raising those babies to believe that rape and murder are okay, then that doesn't mean that rape and murder are okay. They are still horrific crimes.

Big moral principles are absolute. Implicitly, everyone admits it. Take the governments of the world for example. People are constantly arguing over which country's moral systems are better than the other's. In order for one set of values to be better than the other, one of them must be closer to the ideal system (which is that of God's). That's acknowledging the fact that an ideal moral system indeed exists.

Answer 4

I'm a "black and white" kind of gal...morals are absolute. I understand that most people acknowledge moral "gray areas"...thus, in a practical sense, moral values are relative. But the way I see it, gray is merely a shade of black...the universe operates on a set of absolute moral laws...we can try to rationalize violating those laws for circumstantial reasons (not unlike Captain Kirk rationalized violating the prime directive nearly ever episode), but it doesn't alter the fact that we broke the law.

Answer 5

Moral Value is a relative term indeed.

Answer 6

Definitely relative. Moral absolutism is what made the 11th through 13th century Christian Crusades truly horrible.

Answer 7

Absolutely absolute.

What if I come up to you, a stranger, and punch you in the face.

Under the (individual) relativist doctrine, If I don't think it's wrong to punch you, then it's not wrong for me to do it (regardless of what you have to say). .

If a society condones and practices child sacrifice, are they supposed to be morally off the hook for doing so? Come on now. Don't people realize this? 'I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!!'



Moral relativism just sort of rolls off the tongue, but it is incredibly hard to practice. Why? Because the conclusions it reaches are offensive to everyone.

Even an answerer above who claims that morals are relative made an absolute moral claim. I don't mean to pick on you, but when you say "Moral absolutism is what made the 11th through 13th century Christian Crusades truly horrible.," you are making an absolute moral claim. If you adhered to the doctrine of relativism, you would not be decrying the crusades. Under moral relativism, crusading was 'right' for the crusader, it was right for them either individually or as a culture, so how can you say anything either way about their conduct? You could say that their conduct would be reprehensible here and now, but you can not say, under pain of contradiction, that they were wrong for crusading.



I'll give you one moral absolute right now.
1. It is morally wrong to punch strangers in the face.

(And if you don't believe that is a moral absolute, then let me know. I just decided it's morally right for me to punch relativists.)

Answer 8

Relative. Everyone has their own morals, however low some may be. Law is absolute.

Answer 9

Moral values come from upbringing and experience so they are relative as upbringing and experience differs from person to person so moral values cannot be absolute

Answer 10

In as we talk's society, ethical values are relative. Society continuously adjustments from what's suitable and to what isn't. Absolute does not artwork due society changing for all time. human beings tend to flow against what they're informed and what could be performed. Absolute won't merely artwork. As time is going by utilising, human beings struggle by way of stages the place society finds them ideal extremely of others who have self assurance in what's stable and incorrect back in a prior time. identifying what's stable or incorrect relies upon on YOU and your ideals. that's not something somebody can merely answer.