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Quote by: belverron Now, on to the meat of the issue--which y'all have completely failed to address--the question is what establishes these absolutes. Where do they come from? I contend that it is impossible to establish these absolutes in such a way that many people will agree with you.
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No, I did dealt with your question earlier in this thread. The "absolutes" are the rules that we live by. Some are heaped upon us by government, these are indeed suspect rules. (such as the stop sign at a cross road in the middle of the desert; do you stop or not? I do.) Others come from our culture; lessons learned from ions of the experiences of life. The cultural rules are the rules that you learned from your folks, things like: It's wrong to marry your sister, or don't eat food that's fallen on the ground, or don't touch the stove burner, flush after use, don't throw cigarette butts in the urinal (it makes the soggy and hard to light),
etc, etc..
Can the rules be changed? Sure they can; but it's hard to do. First you've got to prove that the old rule is wrong (so now you ARE going to put your hand on the stove burner?) and then make a better one that is generally accepted as better than the first.
In summery, the rules that we live by are a part of our culture created by our forefathers who gleened them from their forefathers, etc..