RE: Russia embraces religious intolerance with draconian blasphemy and anti-gay laws
June 21, 2013 at 5:41 pm
(June 21, 2013 at 4:55 pm)Statler Waldorf Wrote:(June 20, 2013 at 8:05 pm)Psykhronic Wrote: For all I know the bible is right about this, I just have no reason to think so.
It doesn’t seem you have any reason to think relativism is right either, so why did you choose it over the Biblical view?
Quote: Bahaha, are you speaking from experience regarding a mouse and a hammer?
Yup, he got away
Quote: Ultimately it comes down to our own standards is what I think. I could not tell you which is right or wrong by my own standards, but I can analyse why society A and B differ on their approach and the results of such. So the standard I think we SHOULD use is whether or not morals hold up to analysation.
So do we have justification in putting a criminal in prison? Are we really justified in punishing someone for violating a standard that you admit is self-determined? That does not seem to add up to me.
I have reasons to think relativism is accurate - societies have different morals, people have different morals, morals change (in society and individuals), etc
The justification is, with criminals running around willy nilly society tends to be chaotic. Of course, who you are classifying as criminals is another story, but let's say people who go around killing random people are not kept from killing again - there's going to be an awful lot of chaos.
