(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?
Not so.
Humans all inhabit the same physical universe, and thus are all subject to the same physical laws. If something is inhumane if it were to happen to me, the chances that if it happened to you or any other human, it would also be inhumane.
In general, life is preferable to death, comfort is preferable to pain, freedom is preferable to slavery, health is preferable to disease, etc.
I am able to judge what actions are immoral because of how they effect the well being of other human beings.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
