First, I think that we make moral progress by increasingly conforming to the truth. Thus, slavery was always wrong, even if we did not clearly see it until the 19th century.
Second, justice in general is the fitness of things. I consider it wrong, for example, for my brother to be confined to a wheelchair with cerebral palsy. I think it to be a remote effect of sin, disrupting the universe, and that, all other things being equal, he will be compensated for his suffering in the long run. Third, the main point is to say that our judgments may be a matter of opinion, insofar as we are fallible, but that there is an objective reality to aspire to conform to in making judgments..... |
