So how many testaments are we going back here? ... Are you working up to saying that absolute morality 'may' exist? ... 'May', aw c'mon, does it or doesn't it? ... If yes, what do you think are the chances of my next question being, Who among you will throw the first stone? ... no wait, Who among us do we absolutely trust to be moral enough to judge this stuff? ... to take one aspect, Who will write the Code of Absolutely Moral Land Tenure? ... If 'dominance of the few over the many' is deemed less than absolutely moral, who is going to do what about it, given that it puts your PNACers out on their ears along with most other governments on the planet?
You can see how this is going - moral absolutes are like context, everybody's got his own .... take 'thou shalt not kill', well it's a good rule imho yet i will kill in defense of my family or country ... some would have the state kill certain of its unarmed prisoners for various reasons, i think that barbaric ... in either case the judgment of whether to apply the rule or not is made on the basis of weighing relative factors, the 'context', in which all is relative
It's odd that you bring up morality at all, Nadine, given your views opposing rights of the indigenous, you must realise that this attitude is now widely seen as immoral, and has been for some time ... i don't think it matters how much you debate the shades of absolutivity or the rigidity of the relativism, that's all claptrap, it's just plain outright immoral to run people off and loot their stuff like that ... more importantly to the occupiers, it is worse than immoral, it is a mistake |
