| Jay520 said: It really doesn't matter if you believe absolute morality exists or not. You must agree that humanity naturally develops certain rules that are always considered "good" or "bad". |
I personally don't believe in "absolute morality", and I can't even think of any rules "rules" that have always and everywhere been considered "good" or "bad". I mean, even killing people is not necessarily considered bad - we've invented endless exceptions, double standards etc.
In his famous book "clash of cultures", Samuel Huntington for example writes that double standards and hypocrisy is the inevitable price of universalistic/absolute presumptions, and I think there's a lot of truth to it. He even claims that maybe the most important reason for the increasing conflicts between "the west" and "the muslim world" is that they both have strong universalistic tendencies stemming from the missionary character of their historically prevailing religions (christianity / islam), which causes the people in these cultures to have the dangerous belief that they know what's good for just everyone - which is dangerous because it makes these people believe that they have a right or are even doing something "good" when they try to force their morals etc. on others.
By the way, you might want to read some of Nietzsche's great works on morality, like "beyond good and evil". Even if you don't agree with him at all, you'll find some interesting thoughts in his books.
