Raz said this forum was the place for philosophy, so...
Do you belive morality is absolute or relative? That is, do you believe that morality is unchanging, or does it vary according to culture or situation?
__________________ "Men curse the Communist Party, but eventually it may release them. If hell were endless, then God would be worse than our Secret Police."--Pastor Valentin
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I believe that morality is absolute. It's always seemed to me that making morality dependant on culture degrades the term; it stops being morality and turns into the cultural norm.
__________________ "Men curse the Communist Party, but eventually it may release them. If hell were endless, then God would be worse than our Secret Police."--Pastor Valentin
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Before I started this thread, I did a search for relative morality and didn't turn anything up. You're probably going crazy.
__________________ "Men curse the Communist Party, but eventually it may release them. If hell were endless, then God would be worse than our Secret Police."--Pastor Valentin
In America, it is considered wrong to kill someone, at least without provocation. In certain tribes of the Amazon, it's not considered wrong to kill someone unless he is part of your tribe. The question beins asked, tailored to this example, is: Is one of these conflicting values ("killing strangers is wrong" vs. "killing strangers is not wrong") objectively correct, and the other objectively wrong? Or are they both equally valid?
__________________ "Men curse the Communist Party, but eventually it may release them. If hell were endless, then God would be worse than our Secret Police."--Pastor Valentin
In theory, morality should be, at its base, absolute and never relative.
But morality is based on universal principles.
Some view abortion as morally acceptable while others see it as murder.
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I am not driven by people’ s praise and I am not slowed down by people’ s criticism.
You only live once. But if you live it right, once is enough. Wrong. We only die once, we live every day!
Make poverty history.
Relative to culture? What happens when the culture doesn't come to a consensus on whether something is moral?
__________________ "Men curse the Communist Party, but eventually it may release them. If hell were endless, then God would be worse than our Secret Police."--Pastor Valentin
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Gregory what you are doing there is being an external observant. To be apart of the culture is to understand the actions, behavior, and values of the culture. Think of it as an Anthropologist, when studying a certain culture one must be connected within the culture to understand. Therefore your own ethical standards would be different than that of the culture you are viewing. Adoptation is always helpful to a learning process of another culture.
Which I suppose then means that Morality is relatively absolute
as in it is absolute, relative to the personal beliefs of the people/culture in question.
I'd say morality is relative to the culture you're raised in, because from that specific culture is where your morality originated, and grew from. While like you guys stated what they consider to be moral is completely different to yours
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