dtucker300 wrote:
Moral relativism, not amoral relativism. Think about what each word means. They have dictionaries if you have problems understanding.
Sorry, I left out the space between a and m.
This bit of the thread started when I asked kankune,
"Why is [the El Paso shooter] a "pathetic little coward"?"
kankune never answered, but Peewee replied,
"Because he had a gun and k**led unarmed innocent people who never harmed him, might be your first clue."
To which I asked,
"So is anyone who k**ls "unarmed innocent people who never harmed [them]" a "pathetic little coward"?"
Peewee replied,
"Unless it's self-defense or war, I would say yes, size doesn't matter."
I asked, "So no one who k**ls "unarmed innocent people who never harmed [them]" in war is a "pathetic little coward"?"
You (dtucker300) replied,
"War is self-defense."
I asked,
"So the Germans bombing London was self-defense."
You replied,
"Don't be ridiculous. In their opinion it was."
I asked,
"So are you a moral relativist?"
You replied,
"No. If I was a moral relativist I would have said we were justified and they were not."
You also wrote,
"Go away and annoy someone else. Socrates, you are not! Let's just say I question your sincerity.
If I was a Moral Relativist I would have said we were right and they were wrong."
I asked you to clarify the logic (but I made a typing error: "amoral" instead of "a moral").
Then you wrote,
"Moral relativism, not amoral relativism. Think about what each word means. They have dictionaries if you have problems understanding."
Realizing I was not going to get an answer from you, I found (with some trepidation that I be deemed pedantic):
https://www.iep.utm.edu/moral-re/Moral relativism is the view that moral judgments are true or false only relative to some particular standpoint (for instance, that of a culture or a historical period) and that no standpoint is uniquely privileged over all others.
Wouldn't a moral relativist say (assuming they even couched things in terms of right and wrong), "We are right and they are right"?
But to get back to my original question to kankune, why is [the El Paso shooter] a "pathetic little coward"?
An answer might have been: "I think pathetic little cowards are the worst people, and the shooter is one of the worst people."
Or, "The shooter is a vulnerable child deserving pity because he lacked the heart to let people he feared live."
Regarding, "Go away and annoy someone else. Socrates, you are not! Let's just say I question your sincerity."
Of course I'm not Socrates. He was (is) the hero of oligarchs. I prefer democracy.
You question my sincerity. Interesting. I don't question your ability to mount ad hominem attacks.