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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: Lane3 who wrote (70857)7/22/2003 6:00:04 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 82486
 
The thing that makes people itchy about absolute moral principles is that they're perpetuated intact, not subject to constructive evolution

Some people's or groups ideas about specific moral absolutes are perpetuated intact and not subject to constructive evolution but their is nothing inherent in the concept of moral absolutes that prevents morality and moral ideas, or ethical principles from being subject to constructive evolution. Just as science strives towards an understanding of the physical world, and never gets achieves an absolute, perfect and unchanging final form, ideas about absolute morality can improve. The difference is that science is subject to tests, in ways that ethics is not, and this is an important difference, but the point remains that accepting the idea that there is moral truths or objective moral principles is not the same as imposing an unchanging religious or quasi-religious law over everyone, nor does it require you to hammer (literally or even verbally) those who have different opinions.

Tim
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