RE: Any Moral Relativists in the House?
May 25, 2021 at 2:25 pm
(This post was last modified: May 25, 2021 at 2:40 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
That's interesting, because..if the conclusion were true, then cultural relativism would be false. There's no way to get to the position that there is no objective truth in morality* or that morality is a matter of opinions from cultural relativism.
It's not really an issue of refined positions or more refined positions. Cultural relativism asserts that moral facts are objectively true of cultures rather than objects or subjects. That something about my culture is why eating puppies is bad, not something about eating puppies or my opinion of eating puppies.
*frankly, I think this one is doing alot of the work - it's a subtle equivocation silently presenting an appeal to undesirable consequences - so what if a moral truth doesn't refer to the specific parameters a person may prefer - that won't make the assertion any more or less accurate
It's not really an issue of refined positions or more refined positions. Cultural relativism asserts that moral facts are objectively true of cultures rather than objects or subjects. That something about my culture is why eating puppies is bad, not something about eating puppies or my opinion of eating puppies.
*frankly, I think this one is doing alot of the work - it's a subtle equivocation silently presenting an appeal to undesirable consequences - so what if a moral truth doesn't refer to the specific parameters a person may prefer - that won't make the assertion any more or less accurate
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