Rrhain writes:
As I have long stated, there are no moral absolutists. Everybody is a relativist. Oh, they may say they are, but by their actions you shall know them.
As I have long stated, there are moral absolutes and everyone is moral absolutist. That we break and bend the rules we know exist doesn't impact on the fact that we know the rule exists and agree that it is a good rule. It's just that our desire to have our own way in this particular instance and at this particular time outweighs our recognising the absolute morality governing our choice.
What we do is suppress our knowledge of the moral absolute in order to have our way. After that, it either floats back to the surface and we recognise we've done wrong (guilt apparent) or we continue to suppress our knowledge and deny and deny and deny - unto quite ludicrous ends.
Everybody eventually bends the rules.
Very true. But the fact that someone steals doesn't alter their acknowledging stealing to be wrong.
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