Paul writes:
Governor John Hammond in 1853 wrote in Slavery is not a sin:
Would you have an example that would be a little more current?... As you would know, Hammond's pro slavery argument came in the middle of a failing political career and was a much needed tool in his rise to the United States Senate in 1857. With close to 400,000 slaves in South Carolina at that time, his stance helped to secure that seat.
Aren't the timeframe and Hammond's political rationale beside the point? Your claim was that moral relativism makes it convenient for some cultures to justify such evils as slavery, and Mister Pamboli was only providing an example of how easy it is for moral absolutism to do the same.
What this illustrates is the ingenuity of man in using his underlying beliefs to justify whatever he feels needs justifying, be it slavery, genocide, torture, theft, etc. There certainly seem no grounds to conclude that either relativism or absolutism lead inevitably to evil.
--Percy
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