nemesis_juggernaut writes:
If you agree that there is an innate sense of murder being adherently "wrong," then that is an absolute phenomenon. That isn't relative at all. Therefore, if you use that argument your point will render itself moot.
There is certainly not an innate sense that murder is wrong. There is a
definition that murder is wrong. Someone who thinks that all killing is virtuous and good would still say that murder is wrong, because that is the definition of the word!
Think of it like this. There is a man that hates the taste of bananas, can't stand them and is physically ill when he eats them. But someone says to him "Delicious bananas taste good". Can the man argue with that? Of course not, because the sentence is correct by definition. But it does not establish which (if any) bananas are delicious.
You need to forget about the word murder, and focus on the ethical issue behind it. Murder does not mean killing, and the issue at hand here is killing. What killing is right, and what killing is wrong? That is where you will find moral absolutism or moral relativism, not in deceptively loaded definitions of words.
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