Pedophiles are human and they have a different view of the matter than you and I. They have decided that it is right to use children for their own gratification. If they can get four out of five dentists to agree with them, will it then no longer be morally repugnant? I would say you have a problem there, given your view of how we determine what practices are to be accepted by our society.
"On my island, a law probably wouldn't be necessary."
Oh we're back to the island are we?
Interesting, how do you reach a conclusion like that? Of course if everyone on the island had the exact same viewpoint of morality that still would not solve the human problem that stems from the fact that we all know certain things are wrong, yet we do them anyway. Why do you expect this to change on your island? Forgive me for saying this, but this island thing almost sounds like what was attempted by Germany in the thirties and forties. A new pure race. I'm confident that hasn't even entered into your mind but there are some notable similarities.
IMO you are vastly overestimating Human ability to do what is right. If such a world, even on a small scale, were in fact possible why has it not happened in the thousands and thousands of years of recorded history?
If the scheme turns out to have some flaws? Your kidding right?
You seem hung up on how describing how laws are enacted on a societal level. That's not the issue. What is at issue is the existence of objective, transcendent, moral standards. You seem to want to affirm that they somehow exist, and at the same time deny the clear implication that if they do there must therefore also exist, a transcendent, moral, standard giver. That's what seems to be the real stumbling block here |
