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Definitely. It's veering on absolutism when you try to enforce your subjective morality on everyone else. This was the left's principal criticism of the right o
by weberc2 9y ago
Definitely. It's veering on absolutism when you try to enforce your subjective morality on everyone else. This was the left's principal criticism of the right only a decade ago, after all.
- icebraining 9y agoNo, it's not veering on absolutism. If moral relativism is true, as I believe it is barring evidence showing the opposite, then enforcing one's subjective morality is inevitable. Banning slavery and rape, enforcing property rights, all of that is enforcing subjective morality, since there's no other. But it's not absolutism if one recognizes that the enforcement is based on subjective opinion and not on intrinsic qualities of the actions being banned. Essentially, it's might makes right, and I just happen to be lucky that we opponents to slavery are mightier than its advocates.
- weberc2 9y agoThat's all well and good, but that wasn't the argument employed against conservatives when conservative values were mainstream; the argument was "you can't enforce your values because it's not fair to folks with different value systems". This argument was generally characterized as "moral relativism". Regardless of terminology, my point is that the left flip flopped as soon as they became the moral majority.