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A critique of moral relativism

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ringo
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07-19-2007 3:39 PM 		Reply to: Message 33 by anastasia
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anastasia writes:
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We need to have a perfect code for societal behaviour, for family behaviour, and for individual behaviour. That we continue to look for these codes, and strive for them, and enforce them, is evidence that we are all absolutists at heart.
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You're talking about perfectionists, not absolutists. And we're not all perfectionists.
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07-19-2007 4:08 PM 		Reply to: Message 36 by anastasia
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anastasia writes:
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Hm...you sound like a perfectionist.
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I'm obsessive-compulsive. It's not quite the same thing.
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I also have a very short memory, so even if there was an absolute standard of perfection, I wouldn't remember what it was.
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By necessity, I'm an experimentalist. (I belong to the Click-Everything school of computer use - closely related to the Keep-a-Fire-Extinguisher-Handy school.)
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So for me, absolutism is not only unlikely, it's impossible.
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