RE: The Tinkerbell Effect.
July 26, 2013 at 10:40 am
(This post was last modified: July 26, 2013 at 10:42 am by Whateverist.)
(July 26, 2013 at 7:31 am)Consilius Wrote: So history's monuments to moral relativism (Pope Urban, Stalin) serve to teach us that nothing is wrong if you believe it isn't? Or were they deluded and truly in error?
I would say they did what they did for the sake of expedience in achieving ends which most (all?) of us would say were reprehensible. If they offered justifications after the fact, they were merely spinning for political acceptance. Not everything one does is motivated by moral insight, far from it.
As Genkaus already said, to say morality is subjective is not to say it is up for negotiation. What feels right morally is something we discover, not something we construct. Every attempt to concretize a set of morals will be fraught with situational enigmas, but that's okay. Our attempts to summarize morality is a separate enterprise from applying morality in day to day life, and it is only the latter that truly matters.
