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Chrizum said:
famousringo said:
There's morally permissible and then there's morally optimal. Quite a few moral codes would find allowing somebody to kill himself permissible, but pretty much all of them would agree that stopping him is morally optimal.

To put it another way, it's not wrong if you don't stop a suicide, but it's most right if you do.

There is no such thing as an absolute moral code.


You'll note that I used a plural there. If I acknowledge more than one, it's implied that no one of them is absolute.

I'm not looking to get into a debate on moral absolutism vs. relativism. I'm not even sure if I have a position to argue in that debate, since both ideas seem to have their share of problems.



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