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Moral Relativism leads directly to logical contradiction - how can an action be both evil and not evil at the same time? Imagine if our judicial branch worked
by najirama 17y ago
Moral Relativism leads directly to logical contradiction - how can an action be both evil and not evil at the same time?
Imagine if our judicial branch worked that way, would that lead to a sustainable society? Absolutely not. You couldn't legitimately punish anyone for a crime because what is a 'crime' to you may not be a 'crime' to the perpetrator. And so on, and so on...
Bottom line, if an action is evil, it is fundamentally evil. The nature of an action doesn't change according to who commits it. The day humanity stops "cringing" when faced with apologist behavior is perhaps the day when humanity dooms itself.
- bhseo 17y agoDescriptive relativism is merely the positive or descriptive position that there exist, in fact, fundamental disagreements about the right course of action even when the same facts obtain and the same consequences seem likely to arise.