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Reply To: | The philosophy, work & influences of Noam Chomsky |
Date: | Mon, 4 Oct 1999 17:47:23 -0700 |
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It seems to me that objective morality is "What is right", an absolute truth if
you will, regardless of how we perceive it.
What we perceive to be an objective morality or absolute truth is actually quite
subjective, of necessity, because it is what we perceive to be true rather than
necessarily what is true; in other words, a relative truth that will vary from
person to person and even from one time to another for the same person.
If we believe that there is an "objective morality" or what I call an absolute
truth, then we can spend our lives trying to grasp it and be guided by it (an
eminently worthwhile endeavour in my view). However, we should at the same time
recognize that our perception of it is a relative truth that will vary from
somebody else's best perception of absolute truths (or objective morality), which
will be another relative truth.
We should not attempt to kill others because their best intentioned perception
differs from our own. Regrettably, people have been killing others for millennia
because the others did not share their relative truths about religion, economics,
politics, lifestyles, etc. I think that by their behaviours such people indicate
that they are a very far way off from even approximating an understanding of
objective morality . . . . . . .but, then, that's only my relative truth.
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