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Politics : Al Gore vs George Bush: the moderate's perspective
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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (6516)11/17/2000 7:37:52 PM
From: epicure  Read Replies (2) of 10042
 
My moral standards as high because I set them high- in my experience many other people do not set their standards high, and I do not set standards for other people, only for myself. The fact that my standards are high has more to do with the character I was born with and the parents who raised me, than with anything else. I have trouble blaming people for their lax standards- I have trouble blaming them because they sleep around, or cheat or lie, and while I would like people to always act in an aboveboard manner, I do not expect it, nor do I get very upset about non-critical (to me) instances of minor perfidy, especially in politics, which is almost always a dirty business on EVERY side of the political spectrum. It is simply genetics and the way they were raised that makes people the way they are (imo).

Now it is important for many people to feel that there are definite "rights" and "wrongs" for only by believing in a strict exogenous code can they conform their behavior to society. That is not the case for me. I can act to an even higher standard than society requires because it suits me. I do not need an exogenous morality. I surmise- looking at human history and the world at large- that morality depends for most people on where they were born. And most people never try to look further than that. I surmise from your posts that you are a person who needs a concrete external morality. You do not understand relativism at all- and I would suspect most liberals don't understand it either. Which is fine- most people can't handle relativism, and that doesn't bother me a bit. I don't understand why people think relativists are bad people, when they tend to be some of the most thoughtful and personally moral people, because they have actually thought about, and examined their morality- relativists just don't interfere a lot- which bothers people who like to impose their own will (usually without thinking about it at all). Control freaks don't make good relativists.

I show my intelligence every day. I cannot help it if you cannot recognize it, that is your problem not mine.
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