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To: liberallarry
You denounce moral relativism, but it appears that is exactly what you personally espouse. You are a walking contradiction. If truth exists friend (and it does!), then your arguments are nothing but turkey baloney.

If you would like to defend your ethical system of moral relativism, I will be happy to blow it to pieces for you with simple logic.

86 posted on 03/15/2002 6:04:29 AM PST by exmarine
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To: exmarine
You denounce moral relativism, but it appears that is exactly what you personally espouse

Where do I denounce moral relativism?

Perhaps I was unclear. I thought I said it was dangerous and that Political Correctniks have given it a bad name in modern times. I also thought I said that it was moral abolutism that was truly dangerous. That's why I referred to Muslims fundamentalists and religious wars.

For me, and many who think like I do, morality is like all other human attempts to understand the world and structure a decent society - an attempt which constantly requires adjustment in response the new experience and new understanding. That not the same thing as saying that all moral systems are equivalent - the error Political Correctiks make and the reason I despise them.

Perhaps the confusion comes because Political Correctiks have appropriated the term Moral Relativism in the same way they've appropriated the term Liberalism. I am more properly a believer in moral uncertainty rather than relativism. It's dangerous because it is uncertain and thus open to misinterpretation. It's dangerous because people crave certainty.

Well, let them crave it. The reality is we live in an uncertain world.

91 posted on 03/15/2002 6:20:41 AM PST by liberallarry
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