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Originally Posted by kennyc
I'm NOT wrong. This has been argued countlessly and endlessly by philosophers and laymen alike. There is no way to prove that objective ethics/standards/norms/beliefs exist.
This is nothing more than your belief, it is not mine.
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If this is what you truly believe, ponder this- let's assume that we live in a society that thinks slavery is okay- that is our "norm.": Are you telling me that you would have no problem keeping slaves? That if one of those slaves got out of line, you would whip him? Or what if you lived in Nazi Germany- would you have bveen there helping round up Jews for transport to the concentration camps?
Cultural relativity has indeed been argued about, and the relativists lost. The position that there can be no objective standards in aesthetics leads to equally silly pronouncements about the arts as the belief in cultural relativity would lkead one to cvlaim that "It was okay for the Mayans to sacrifice virgins" and "It was okay for the Nazis to exterminate Jews". I mean hey- it was a norm so it was right, eh?