RE: Mother and son in New Mexico face jail time for incestuous relationship
August 11, 2016 at 5:49 pm
(August 11, 2016 at 4:30 pm)Excited Penguin Wrote:(August 11, 2016 at 4:26 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: There's a silly argument I I've ever seen one. Apartheid was the law in South Africa ... Jim Crow was the law in America. By your "reasoning", those are both moral.
They're not moral by my standards, they're moral by that society's however.
I trust you understand now the sense in which I use that adjective at the moment.
Your problem is that morality is inherently personal, being both subjective and relative. Social morality gives rise to obvious contradictions which indict its usefulness in human life.
In Saudi Arabia, you'd be beheaded for your atheism, legally. Is that moral? Why or why not?
I'll leave you to work out the ramifications on your own. I don't think you've thought this through.