(July 22, 2010 at 4:41 am)Purple Rabbit Wrote: Indeed it would be and historically it has been in large parts of the world. See the example above.
That seems to demonstrate a flaw in your moral system. You can't condemn the Taliban for oppressing women, as that's the norm in their culture. Neither can anyone change society's moral view, because there is no standard to which that person can appeal to change others' minds, if morality is just society's view; they will necessarily be wrong, because they'll be arguing against the majority view. Therefore, William Wilberforce was technically morally wrong, until society's view changed. Also, moral progress becomes completely meaningless, as I've said, because no one society can be called better than another.
'We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.' H.L. Mencken
'False religion' is the ultimate tautology.
'It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.' Mark Twain
'I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.' Abraham Lincoln
'False religion' is the ultimate tautology.
'It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.' Mark Twain
'I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.' Abraham Lincoln
