Haggard Scandal

Murder withing one's social group is abhorrent since it impacts on the local community. In a war, however, murdering the ememy is seen a heroic. This isn't particularly absolute! Morals have a biological origin. No one needs "training" on morals? You've just suggested training a child to be anti-abortion! But they haven't admitted abortion is wrong, NJ, they have said it wrong for a child to see such a procedure. This is your absolute morality twisting people's responses to fit your own worldview.Most pro-abortion supporters take a nuanced, "relative" view of abortion. Most will certainly concede that abortion is itself unpleasant, but they nevertheless argue that a woman must have the right to control her own reproductive capability.

Hi Schraf.I respect your views but please don't use your own preference as a basis for dictating which terms I can and cannot use. I think the content of my position was clear enough, so lets not split hairs over terminology.Edited by RickJB, : No reason given.

Murder is a negatively loaded term that you have chosen to lend weight to you argument. Killing (to use the neutral term) is seen a "wrong" when it impinges on one's local community, yet killing is also seen a morally correct by many when one is dealing with an "enemy" in wartime.Your story is truly sad, but this is isn't the Oprah Winfrey show. Appeals to the heart in lieu of logic may work in church, but you ain't fooling anyone with sob tactics here.The act of killing can have a different moral status that is entirely dependent on its context. Hardly what I'd call "absolute"...Besides, the very fact that you are engaged in argument here is in itself a confirmation of the fact that views on morality are not absolute! Edited by RickJB, : No reason given.Edited by RickJB, : No reason given.

No, you both ARE relativists - it just so happens that your views overlap in some areas and not in others. Bestiality is one area which the vast majortiy of humans find objectionable. Homosexuality is frowned upon to a far lesser degree.As a said previously the very existence of this argument works against your hypothesis.It seems to me that the real issue for you is not that others have different concepts of morality, it is that you are determined in the face of opposition to label your own concept as the "correct" one. Edited by RickJB, : No reason given.Edited by AdminPD, : Warning