From: Mark Walker (tap@cgocable.net)
Date: Fri Apr 20 2001 - 16:32:50 MDT
> We all get to choose slippery slopes. Perhaps all the slopes there are
> to choose from are slippery. I like the ones that are visibly slippery
> and don't provide the false comfort of a moral high ground. It's the
> ones who believe in an absolute morality that have done the most harm,
> historically.
>
Well historically "the ones who believe in an absolute morality" constitute
the vast majority of those who have a view on the subject. The contrast
class here is generally thought to be moral relativism. Mussolini thought
that Fascism was relativism in practice.
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