Comments on: There IS such a thing as right and wrong http://www.stoptheaclu.com/2008/12/10/there-is-such-a-thing-as-right-and-wrong/ Beating Them With Their Own Sickle And Hammer Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:08:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Ben http://www.stoptheaclu.com/2008/12/10/there-is-such-a-thing-as-right-and-wrong/comment-page-1/#comment-109773 Ben Thu, 11 Dec 2008 04:25:48 +0000 http://www.stoptheaclu.com/?p=18029#comment-109773 I'm definitely less knowledgeable in Philosophy, being a high school student, but can't those five tenants justify actions that we now think of as "wrong" but were once referred to as "right"? Take slavery for instance. The arguments at the time might have gone as follows: 1. Slave owners like it when others validate their beliefs 2.Slavery leads to better economic conditions and cultures savages 3. Slavery is sanctioned and mandated in the Bible 4. It is fitting and proper for the whites to be slave owners 5. We have always had slavery Obviously, we would now categorize these beliefs as "wrong" but they could be argued at the time. Is there some absoluteness that can't fall into something like this? I’m definitely less knowledgeable in Philosophy, being a high school student, but can’t those five tenants justify actions that we now think of as “wrong” but were once referred to as “right”? Take slavery for instance. The arguments at the time might have gone as follows:
1. Slave owners like it when others validate their beliefs
2.Slavery leads to better economic conditions and cultures savages
3. Slavery is sanctioned and mandated in the Bible
4. It is fitting and proper for the whites to be slave owners
5. We have always had slavery

Obviously, we would now categorize these beliefs as “wrong” but they could be argued at the time. Is there some absoluteness that can’t fall into something like this?

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