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Politics : Should God be replaced?
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To: Solon who wrote (1142)9/28/2000 11:13:43 PM
From: cosmicforce  Read Replies (1) of 28931
 
As soon as you take positive action, you're become an absolutist. Getting along generally includes toleration, a relativist principle. In order to be tolerant you have to accept that other points of view are valid. As a practical matter, it is hard to accept all view points. That's why laws exist. Further, some people insist on laws that restrict the behavior of adults that govern impersonal or consenting behavior ( e.g., drug, morals and sex laws.)

These arise out of the notion of the "public good" from paternalism. They don't stop there. They restrict behavior by other countries. This really starts to look like absolutism when national policy starts reflecting a core set of values not universally held especially by countries that have their own set of absolute values. Sounds like a sure way to have conflict. The extreme of relativism is isolationism. THAT has its own set of problems of course.

I don't know the formula for finding the balance, except exercising moderation in all things, including your relativism!!
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