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In reply to the discussion: Just because we were against it when Bush did it, does NOT mean we are hypocrites now [View all]patrice
(47,992 posts)alone understand it, how it is that for at least some of us, moral relativism's being grounded in situational factors instead of arbitrary moral absolutes is what makes it MORE possible to honor values for peace and non-violence, than just ignoring all of that situational stuff, and pretending that those moral centers you talk about are real and anything that doesn't meet that abstracted standard needs only to be judged for im-morality or for being non-ethical, so nothing else, such as the actual nuts and bolts of ethics and morality inherent in the conditions that people are experiencing, matter.
Moral relativism is a more authentic moral effort/process than bullshit judgements about moral centers, based upon little of nothing in the way of the actual facts of a situation, let alone the most significantly salient facts.