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Well you picked a good one with murdering and the death penalty and so forth. > If you're not prepared to give up all claims on how others should act, then you
by throwawayaway 12y ago
Well you picked a good one with murdering and the death penalty and so forth.
> If you're not prepared to give up all claims on how others should act, then you're not really a moral relativist.
My only claim extends as far as I can act or influence others to act to serve my own needs and wants. Am I not a moral relativist?
I'm not sure that the author is commenting on society, but young people who are morally relativistic. I think he badly misrepresents their argument and doesn't really make one of his own.
- jackson1372 12y ago> "My only claim extends as far as I can act or influence others to act to serve my own needs and wants." That egoism, not moral relativism. I took it that the author was making the following point about our society: we teach them in school that things like "cheating is wrong" is mere opinion, and yet similar judgments like "tax-evasion is wrong" aren't treated as mere opinions when they grow up.
- throwawayaway 12y agoegoism sounds about right. i wonder are they mutually exclusive. reading wikipedia, i'd disagree with normative moral relativism and agree with meta-ethical/descriptive moral relativism. just because i'm an egoist doesn't mean i think everyone else is. > and yet similar judgments like "tax-evasion is wrong" aren't treated as mere opinions when they grow up. I don't see anything like that written in the article, where did you take that from?