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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (5811)	2/14/2001 1:26:53 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

With regards to intervention into the conduct of other countries or other persons within our own country or community or family, that could turn into an interesting topic. I don't know that we have to first establish whether or not rights are absolute before we can discuss it. But I think you do. If all morality is relative, there is no basis for imposing your beliefs on others. If China chooses to torture its citizens, and its citizens accept that, relativism would say that they are free to make that choice and, while we don't make it, we have no reason to interfere with their choice. The only basis for us to intervene is to say that we know better than they do, which means we believe our morality has a stronger basis in rightness than theirs does. But that can only happen, IMO, if there is at least some bedrock principle we can use to say this morality is better than that morality.