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RE: Schools don't teach moral relativism.

Comment comment by markmcb on 18 October 2006

Nice post. I think I'm mostly with you. To be much more simplistic, the biggest problem I have with religious morals is that the people who promote them tend to dismiss two key things: they could be wrong, and others who don't believe in their religion see them as somewhat crazy (i.e., not much different than believing in fairies and unicorns). If they intend to push such black and white concepts, they ought to reconsider the ideals upon with nations like the USA are founded and realize that "God said so" can't be the force behind a law, or even a school lesson.

I personally don't care how people decide not to murder, etc. I think it's obviously wrong. I do care when people force their how on me.

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RE: Schools don't teach moral relativism. by Kevin1 :: NR0

I personally don't care how people decide not to murder, etc. I think it's obviously wrong. I do care when people force their how on me.

You think it is obviously wrong, but some people do not. I think a systematic investigation of why you would decide thus and someone else may decide the opposite would be of paramount importance to anyone who doesn't want to get murdered.

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