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The correctness of action is like the truthfullness of a statement.
Independant of opinion.
There is no such thing as a contrary viewpoint, merely INCORRECT ONES.
And note that I'm not saying that my opinions are correct. Just that there is a correct one and all others are incorrect. All opinions are equally weighted in the evaluation of correctness. They're all carefully given an overall weighting of zero, except the right one, which is given a weighting of one.
You can't change what's right by lots of people agreeing with you. You can only convince eachother more-so that your opinion is the correct one. That doesn't make you right though.
posted by McAnerbot @ 7:21 AM
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5 Comments:
I disagree!
same.
The stance of moral relativity means you can't really judge if anything is right or wrong though. Even in full context!
If no absolute exists, then there is no way to tell if something is right or wrong outside of your own head.
I worry about this because it often seems that my morale compass is out of alignment with even my peer group.
(also my word verification was utfpwn. SO CLOSE to wtfpwn.)
Mark, you talk of all this absolute correctness, and yet you say nothing about how one knows what is correct. Doesn't this, in effect, get to the same conclusion you made of moral relativity, in that you can't really judge what's right and wrong?
i like it.
"You can't change what's right by lots of people agreeing with you..." etc
it's true
just b/c lots of Nazis agreed that Jews were 'sub-human' doesn't mean they were right
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