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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Ilaine who wrote (74886)2/22/2000 1:46:00 AM
From: jbe  Read Replies (2) of 108807
 
Don't quite agree, Blue. The Nazis were not facing a morally ambiguous situation, which they had to act to resolve, and in which they were forced to choose between one ethical principle and another.

In the first place, there was no objective need whatsoever to kill Jews, Gypsies, mental defectives, et al. And there was no "moral ambiguity" about the situation; that is to say, there was no clash/tension between different traditional values; no need to decide which took priority. The only choice they made was to dump the OLD morality IN TOTO and to apply the NEW.

To say that anybody's choices are as good as anybody else's IS the "bad kind" of relativism. Another term for it is nihilism.
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