Hi X,
"You discount the work it takes to be a relativist.
It takes a certain amount of work to see the point of view of the World Trade Center terrorists, for example. But seeing their position and being a relativist doesn't make you some sort of lazy relativist unless that is what you choose to be. After all, relativism allows you to be as athletic and muscular in your choice of actions and morals as you want to be. Relativism only really means that you recognize- even while making your choice -lazy or not- that your choice is relative to who you are, and possibly to the group to which you belong.""
That is a very good point, because relativism, IMO takes MORE energy and MORE thought to project yourself AWAY from your own POINT of REFERENCE..
For Example, IMO, the point of reference (POR) for the general public in the US, is the terror of the bombing and the threat towards our lifestyle. And that is very true.. First time here, compared to EUROPE, ASIA and AFRICA.. Very bad for us relatively speaking..
On the other side, cheering, because the tragedy was a "victory" over,in their sense, relatively speaking, because their POR was a Western blatant and consumptive life style..
And there are numerous subsets to the above in the last week, from "Wall street, where, I gathered they thought, the most important thing in the world was to get on with trading..
Relativism is VERY true but VERY bad.. But to understand it, IMO, is VERY GOOD...
I don't know.. It is just my thoughts from a relativist POV..
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