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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: Dayuhan who wrote (17831)7/9/2001 8:05:48 PM
From: The Philosopher  Read Replies (1) of 82486
 
What you wrote was "We are trying to restrict behaviour because we
have credible reason to believe that the behaviour in question will have a
negative impact on other people."

But whether the impact is negative or not is a moral judgment. We think slavery is a negative impact. But that's from our moral perspective. Maybe in other cultures it's a positive. So a moral relativist can't use judgmental terms like "negative impact."

Mind you, I'm not a relativist, because personally I think it's an immoral philosophy. But I understand it. Indeed, I frankly have never met a pure moral relativist because everybody I know has some sense that there are certain things that are wrong, period, in any culture or for any people.
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