I don't claim or believe that my view is absolute and eternal truth. Even though I think it should be"
LOL, why do you think it should be?
You evidently missed the <vbg> at the end of the second sentence. Hint - that implies sarcasm, words not to be taken too seriously...
. If Hitler had won the war, he would still be evil today, as he was yesterday, and as he will be tomorrow, and eight million years in the future.
We, from our POV, call him Wrong (evil). That - now - doesn't change. Correct.
If 8 million years from now people then choose to call what Hitler did Right - well, that doesn't change our POV now, we still call it Wrong.
BUT the people in the future still call it Right. Even today, neo-Nazi's presumably believe Hitler was Right.
Do you understand this? You can rant 'but he's Wrong, he's evil, regardless of what they think' all you want [and FWIW, I can't conceive how it could ever be viewed otherwise]...
but your hypothetical future-dwellers don't call him Wrong, or evil.
No matter what you think - they think differently. Your 'absolutely, what he did is wrong' does not matter to them. You may say that 'if they think this, then they are wrong too'. But if they hear your POV, they say that *you* are wrong.
Their viewpoint is different to ours.
Therefore - by the very definition of your example - even here, there is not an absolute. It's called 'relativism'.
You know that's true in your Gut, but your philosophy is unable to account for it, and if you were honest, you would admit that your philosophy not only, can't account for it, but it outright contradicts it.
Read and comprehend the above. There's no contradiction.
. The categories of right and wrong should not even exist, but there they are.
Once again, I'll try and explain this to you...
WE CHOOSE THE CATEGORIES. OTHERS MAY ASSIGN THEM DIFFERENTLY, OR NOT AT ALL.
The fact that you, undoubtedly, view something as absolutely Right (or Wrong) does NOT bind that opinion on the rest of humanity, everywhere, now and evermore.
Even if I agree with you that something is Right, it doesn't.
Right and Wrong are labels which we apply. They have changed in the past. They will change in the future.
What we call right - for example, that women are fully allowed to vote, or that a black man may marry and/or have children by a white woman - our predecessors would have called very, very Wrong. We, OTOH, tend to disapprove of keeping slaves, burning witches and the Divine Right of kings (even though the Bible may approve...).
Right and Wrong are labels, applied by humans.
They change over time, and from place to place.
Life's like that. |
