RE: Atheists only vote please: Do absolute MORAL truths exist? Is Rape ALWAYS "wr...
February 19, 2015 at 9:31 pm
(February 19, 2015 at 9:17 pm)JuliaL Wrote:What I'm saying is that is a nonsensical question. Describe to me an instance of rape that is independent of actors, circumstances, and reference.(February 19, 2015 at 8:50 pm)The Reality Salesman Wrote: You see how absurd this becomes when we try to apply this Absolute Stuff to other experiences that require conscious experience to give them meaning?
Quite
That doesn't make it absolutely bad ('absolute' as independent of all actors, frames of reference or circumstances.) Objective and absolute are not the same thing.
The definition of rape is contingent on all of those things.
What you are asking is tantamount to this:
"is there such thing as a fart that is stinky as an absolute? I mean, I don't like the smell of farts, to me, they smell like shit. But that's not the same thing as saying their Ontologically Stinky"
That's right. And it lends nothing to the understanding of human experience any more than an intrinsically Wrong rape that exists apart from our reflection of it.
