Not sure why this got removed from 196lemmy…blahaj.zone but it would be real nice if moderation on Lemmy gave you some sort of notification of what you did wrong. Like an automatic DM or something

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      1 year ago

      Moral relativism does not mean you agree with different moral standards, and it does not mean people lack any moral standards

      I never said or implied this. I can only infer that you misunderstood what I’m writing. Moral relativism says that an action is good or bad relative to the situation that it’s committed in. So if everyone in a culture thinks female genital mutilation is good, the relativist will argue that is is morally acceptable for those people. But they can’t say that an action is universally right/wrong and, to me, that seems to limit their ability to say that actions done in one context are preferable to actions done in another. I don’t see how that leaves room for moral progress.

      Now, you aren’t providing any reasons for your view; you’re stating your view and emphatically claiming I’m wrong. I’m happy to have a dialogue about the subject but you have to, you know, actually give an argument. How do you view the moral relativist position and how is that conception consistent with moral progress?