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Christians More Supportive of Torture Than Non-Religious Americans

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Nyet12/20/2014 3:29:34 pm PST

re: #135 dog philosopher

according to some working definition of “relativistic morality”, that is, my interpretation of it, then in this particular your morality is not relativistic since you hold in this regard a firm conviction of its evilness regardless of circumstances

I would distinguish between situational and relativistic morality. What you mean is situational morality, where goodness or evilness of something depends on the situation (I would argue that any healthy morality is in part situational; lying is wrong, but lying to the Nazis about hiding the Jews isn’t). Relativistic morality on the other hand is relative to the person.