Reply To: ETHICS WITHOUT ABSOLUTES

Belle Rose wrote:

@unseen…????? WTF? How did you derive that from my comment? Lol

“Absolutes are a false security blanket that give the illusion of universal moral obligation. Most people don’t live up to their own ethical standards of others anyway so what difference does it make.”

Your statement is pretty much a definition of ethical/moral relativism, which claims that such claims derive their meaning “truth” (such as it is) from the cultural context. Thus, for example, slavery isn’t really wrong, because it was right for the Greeks, so it’s just wrong for us but right for them.