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Quote by: PatrickHenry Relativism is a scourge.
While religion can be tolerant and inclusive, to be a relativist means that the rightness or wrongness of an action depends on the circumstances.
This means that in some circumstances it would be right for a relativist to rape a baby...
That the savage killers of September 11th may have a point that needed expressing...
That torture may need to happen because....
I prefer to have an absolute standard, but I choose to tolerate relativists in the hope of persuading them to my world view before they decide that I need to be killed for my absolutism.... |
The idea is that truth is relative to the moment at hand. That would not also mean that their is a time when raping a baby is right and a time when it is wrong. Unless you could come up with a correct reason why such behavior is right, (not counting freaky minded justifications). If it is wrong every moment then it is still wrong to each moment, the moment at hand, here and now, in the past or future.
Now the sun shines everyday (even if it does so above clouds) and so that truth would be relative to the moment at hand also, unless for some reason the sun stopped shinning.
So some truisms are relative to the moment most of the time, and even all of the time. But still relative to the situation at hand.
where-as other standards are more flexable. and most situations could be monitored by such flexable standards. Stealing food for example, even killing another person, can be right or wrong relative to a given situation.
The Absolute Truth however is not a dogmatic standard, it is a Source of wisdom from which we can know what would be the right action relative to each situation that we encounter, as situations are often flexable in the sense that just one manner of response might not be correct for all circumstances.