Unfortunately there are many who are not decent, and many who use the line of reasoning (if it can be called "reasoning") that each person should just think up their own moral guidelines, if they want some.
I don't know why these people don't see that by each person depending on his/her own mind, we wind up with skin lampshades, cattle cars full of Jews, and extermination camps.
And 40+ million babies killed before breathing air.
The problem with moral absolutes is that there are so many to choose from! On the other hand, you can explain in plain, rational English (without resorting to religion) why you think abortion is immoral and destructive to society. Why not have both your moral absolutes and your faculties for reason?
I'm only relating my experiences not promoting someone else's.
In rereading this
>>I don't know why these people don't see that by each person depending on his/her own mind, we wind up with skin lampshades, cattle cars full of Jews, and extermination camps.<<
Each of us depending on his/her own mind to determine what track in life we should follow. We are constantly making changes of a few degrees one way or the other. Occasionally, we will do a complete 180 when we see we have been following the wrong track.
This is what personal liberty and freedom is all about. We have the choice to decide for ourselves which track to follow.
The last thing I want is for a religious leader to demand that I follow his chosen track. I refuse to live in a dictatorship.
If some one in power wants me to make skin lampshades for him, I'll do my utmost to annihilate him, not honor him. But this is my choice. I have seen the beauty of personal liberty and freedom and refuse to allow it to be taken from me.