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Originally posted by Spanky
I know you said you believe in SOME absolute rights and wrongs. And again I pose the same question. How can you believe in SOME absolute rights and wrongs and be a moral relativists? If certain rights and wrongs are ABSOLTES does that not make you and moral ABSOLUTIST and not a RELATIVIST. If you are a moral relativist does that not mean that ALL morals and rights are relative?
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No. And what's more, relativism doesn't necessarily say that all mores, rights and wrongs are not absolute. Relativism can also posit that humans are incapable of perceiving and acting with absolutes. The best they can hope to achieve is to work out some approximation. Consider Plato's allegory of the cave. Or, once again, consider the paradox inherent in acknowledging the sanctity of human life but also conceding that it is sometimes necessary to kill.
