RE: Ben Shapiro vs Neil deGrasse Tyson: The WAR Over Transgender Issues
January 28, 2025 at 1:58 pm
(This post was last modified: January 28, 2025 at 2:01 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(January 28, 2025 at 1:46 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: It occurs to me that if we do lack an objective standard, that doesn't prevent us from determining that a given action is morally worse or better than another. I don't need an objective standard of length to tell one piece of rope is longer than another. Torturing a healthy human baby to death is worse than cooing at it, and I'm prepared to die on that hill.
The length -is- the objective standard, in the comparison. If society had an official stick and it said that the (objectively shorter) one was "longer"...and the (objectively longer) one was "shorter"..then that would be the fact of the matter, regardless of the length of the ropes. Metarope Relativism.
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