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Post #607877

Author
darth_ender
Parent topic
The thread where we make enemies out of friends, aka the abortion debate thread
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Date created
15-Nov-2012, 5:18 PM

Did I ever say "every single moral"?  I know I've written a lot on the topic, but if you look carefully at previous posts yesterday and today I did point out that based on the common moral that we should protect the rights of minorities, we do impose laws that protect their rights.  But again, those laws are based on what?  A moral that the majority of our society holds to.  There are societies that do not hold that same moral belief in general, and thus do not have laws in place to protect those minorites (i.e. Saudi Arabia).  I agree, these things seem self-evident to us.  I do believe we should protect minorities.  But a minority believes that survival of the fittest means we should eliminate"social undesirables."  We can protect some of the rights of that minority, including their right to believe whatever idiotic crap they subscribe to.  But we don't allow them to actually live out their version of right and wrong.

It amazes me that I, among the most openly religious on this site, am the one arguing for the subjectivity of morality, while CP3S and Bingowings and others seem stuck on the idea that we don't impose morals on others, yet are clinging to their own presumptive interpretation of morality themselves.