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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: cosmicforce who wrote (7600)3/6/2001 12:17:48 PM
From: The Philosopher  Read Replies (1) of 82486
 
I think I have to be the
ultimate judge of right and wrong

Just yours, or everybody's?

If you find the holocaust repugnant, but someone from Germany in 1937 still feels it was the morally right thing to do at the time and place (situational ethics), are you willing to accept that FOR THEM AT THAT TIME AND PLACE it was the morally right thing to do?

Or do you want to impose your judgment of right and wrong on them? And on what basis?

And are you equally willing to have them impose their judgment of right and wrong on you?

These are, IMO, unresolvable dilemmas whenever any individual sets themself up as the "ultimate judge of right and wrong."
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