| PlagueOfLocust said: Heheh, sorry cdude, but strong arguments can be made to the contrary; Morals ain't relative. Personal moral codes are, but that does not show that morals are. I'll let the C.S. Lewis quote present my point. Edit - I wouldn't want to take this thread off topic any more than it basically has been for the last 5 pages, so you can PM me if you'd care to actually hear such arguments. And if not, I won't lose sleep. |
Morals/taboos are EXTREMELY relative. Anthropologists (of which, I am one) have found only one moral/taboo that seems to be universal through hundreds of years of studying different cultural groups throughout the entire world. That one thing (the incest taboo) is even on shaky ground, because family relationships are different in different parts of the world. What the U.S. considers as incest is quite different than what a native Hawaiian or an Eskimo thinks is incest.
"Human equality is a contingent fact of history. Equality is not true by definition; it is neither an ethical principle (though equal treatment may be) nor a statement about norms of social action. It just worked out that way. A hundred different and plausible scenarios for human history would have yielded other results (and moral dilemmas of enormous magnitude). They didn't happen." - Stephen Jay Gould
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