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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: TimF who wrote (23123)2/18/2012 4:21:27 PM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) of 42652
 
I don't agree that moral issues are subjective, at least not that they are entirely subjective.

If it is purely persuasion it would seem you saying that I'm not persuasive enough to get almost everyone to agree with me.

I don't accept absolutes other than scientific facts. For something to be absolutely moral or absolutely the best or whatever, there has to be some authority that has so established it. You can't know what that absolute is unless it's specified somewhere definitive. Until and unless you can come up with some authority, some definitive standard someplace, you're simply wrong if you claim an absolute. You can believe that something is moral or immoral. Cultures, with a critical mass of members who agree, can so treat it. But you can't claim that it absolutely is or isn't moral without an authoritative basis. You have yet to specify that basis, probably because there isn't one.
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