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Politics : Should God be replaced?
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To: Solon who wrote (19881)4/30/2005 1:41:16 PM
From: exdaytrader76  Read Replies (1) of 28931
 
All the evidence the world over shows morality to be relative to country, culture, community, religion, etc.

But moral relativism is a slippery slope. For example, if a new culture was discovered, maybe a long lost Amazon jungle tribe, what if they were practicing human sacrifice and had been doing so for eons, would it then be moral? What about child sacrifice?
The moral relativist would have to be ok with it, because morality is relative to culture. If the culture was fine with ritual human sacrifice, the moral relativist must be also. To criticize that it is "wrong" is to abandon relativism in favor of some sort of arbitrary "morals," which is everything that the relativist abhors.
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