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What kind of world do you wish for your children to grow up in?

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    #92
    Húrin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,045 ✭✭✭Húrin


    Jakkass wrote: »
    Moral relativism forces people with any form of genuine moral compass to be a hypocrite. In cases such as genocide, people would lean to say that it is absolutely wrong, when infact it is morally relative to the perpetrator if you subscribe to relative morality. So the Rwandan Genocide in 1994 could have been very right for the people who did it and very wrong for you. That's the best you can do on a situation like that.

    I agree. I've found plenty of people who say that morality is relative, but nobody who actually behaves like it. Apparently Michel Foucault managed to be consistent on this one, though I didn't know him.


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    #93
    eoin5
    Registered Users Posts: 2,141 ✭✭✭eoin5


    Jakkass wrote: »
    Moral relativism forces people with any form of genuine moral compass to be a hypocrite. In cases such as genocide, people would lean to say that it is absolutely wrong, when infact it is morally relative to the perpetrator if you subscribe to relative morality. So the Rwandan Genocide in 1994 could have been very right for the people who did it and very wrong for you. That's the best you can do on a situation like that.

    The best you can do? Are you striving for something? Maybe the idea that the whole discourse of morality doesnt even hold objective truths as in Moral nihilism might suit better.


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