(June 22, 2015 at 12:57 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(June 22, 2015 at 12:51 pm)Stimbo Wrote: Is it objectively wrong to push a knife deliberately into the body of another person?
The isolated act of pushing a knife into someone? No. :-)
Because as someone pointed out, it could be a medical procedure to save/improve the life of another person.
Thanks for addressing the question, even if the punchline was a bit premature. The fact that you felt the need to add a qualifier tells me that, as with the murder thing, you do recognise that there are actions which are context-driven - hence, relative.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
