| Well, there we go.....You once asked what the difference was between believing the Holocaust was objectively evil, and finding it evil according to one's "personal standards". This is one practical consequence of the difference: we cannot combat evil because it would be "imposing our values". Wouldn't want to "impose our values" on regimes permitting chattel slavery. Wouldn't want to impose our values on the Nazi swine who rounded up Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, and political prisoners and gassed them or worked them to death. I mean, who are we to say that that is wrong? After all, didn't our great- great- great- grandfathers do something wrong too? So forever after, we cannot comment upon evil, or take steps to help anyone, but must remain forever complicit in our inaction. Although all morality is a matter of personal choice, and relative, nevertheless there is an inviolable principle involved, that we should not interfere with the autonomy of others. Why that is the one absolute principle beats me, though. What if my personal morality differs from yours, and in mine, we are supposed to interfere? What is the absolute standpoint from which you will condemn me? Oh, well, guess there is none. There is just politics, and the determination to win elections and shape policy........ |
