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To: epicure who wrote (72528)	8/18/2003 8:00:32 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) of 82486

Did you read the piece I posted to Jewel on moral absolutism? I scoured the site and what I gleaned from it is that the moral absolutists have two main gripes about moral relativism. One is the issue of whether right and wrong can vary from culture to culture. Most of the discussion that we've had on the subject here has been about that feature. What interested me was the other feature--the complaint that relativists see right and wrong as a function of whether the outcome is good or not rather than the act. I don't know if I had just checked my brain at the door or what but that was new info to me. If that issue was ever raised, it blew right by me. First of all, it never occurred to me that relativists didn't see some acts as basically good or bad, all else being equal, like lying is bad and telling the truth is good, generally. It never occurred to me that anyone didn't think that. I thought the issue was merely one of whether one should lie to a mother dying from a car crash to tell her her kid survived when, in fact, he didn't, so she could die in peace. Of course, that site was oversimplified, but that's what I got from it.

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