RE: Atheists only vote please: Do absolute MORAL truths exist? Is Rape ALWAYS "wrong"?
February 19, 2015 at 12:07 am
(This post was last modified: February 19, 2015 at 12:11 am by Regina.)
Yes I think universal moral truths exist.
Rape isn't suddenly ok just because a particular society may see it as permissable. Whichever way you cut it up, it's still a violation of someone's space and privacy. That doesn't change just because these people over here are ok with it.
I highly doubt a woman (or man) on the recieving end of a rape is suddenly going to be like "oh yes! My society thinks this is ok, so I'm going to enjoy it!" no.
I mean yeah on some things, petty "crimes" maybe, there is a grey area. For that I'd typically argue any "crime" where there is no real victim, or at least no physical living victim. I think we can agree on serious crimes like rape or murder, those are always wrong.
Rape isn't suddenly ok just because a particular society may see it as permissable. Whichever way you cut it up, it's still a violation of someone's space and privacy. That doesn't change just because these people over here are ok with it.
I highly doubt a woman (or man) on the recieving end of a rape is suddenly going to be like "oh yes! My society thinks this is ok, so I'm going to enjoy it!" no.
I mean yeah on some things, petty "crimes" maybe, there is a grey area. For that I'd typically argue any "crime" where there is no real victim, or at least no physical living victim. I think we can agree on serious crimes like rape or murder, those are always wrong.
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"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
