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Originally Posted by MikeB1972
Moral standards are kind of tricky, and anyone claiming "my morals are better than your morals" should be able to back it up with something concrete. I think your on firm ground here, but you're in danger of falling back to the "it's always been done" justification instead of creating an argument that stands on it's own.
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I have to respectfully disagree with the idea that good conscience must inevitably lead people to reach common moral ground. Consider the issue of 19th century British colonialism that I mentioned earlier. Rider Haggard's experience in Britain's African colonies led him to oppose colonialism, and yet his contemporary, Rudyard Kipling, who had equally direct personal experience of the issue, was an ardent supporter of it. I see no reason to suppose that both men were not acting in equally good conscience in reaching those views, and yet they reached diametrically opposed conclusions of the morals of the same issue.