The Depravity of Moral Relativism

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Moral Relativism - an overreaction to religious absolutism.

Useful Info & Links:

Moral Relativism:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_relativism

David Hume:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hume

Gulags:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulag

Moral Realism:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_realism

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/moral-realism/

Reciprocal Altruism:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/mind/articles/personalityandindividual...

Links Outlining My Views on the Non-Aggression Principle:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2ho-uZlDkI&list=WLA8FC71863A72861B&in...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt4VbYfotu0

http://rockingmre.blogspot.com/2011/09/defining-objective-morality.html

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[JDillaDudas]

Hey, good job on the video! Interesting stuff...

[RockingMrE]

@JDillaDudas Thanks

[MortiCarthago]

Mr. E, nice video, hopefully I can get a few responses from you! First, you hold that humans want to cooperate, yet it seems you also believe that people in power (like governors) will abuse it, and also that in difficult times people are more likely to commit war - it seems here that morality is entirely circumstantial. Also, you don't make it entirely clear why war is bad, simply that some systems of governance will be less prone to war. Just some thoughts, looking forward to your response.

[RockingMrE]

@MortiCarthago It is a matter of zero sum plunder vs positive sum trade. One requires the high risk of direct confrontation. The other requires trade and other mutually beneficial interaction. It may seem "circumstantial" but what is actually happening is that humans are taking more risks when their chances of survival drop. When chances of survival increase people will be less inclined to take bigger risks. The only caveat to this is power elites using coercion

[Mvspanky223]

Curious question here but have you ever considered the possibility of people being inherently neutral in intent? If we are genetically programmed to survive via Darwinism then that could lead to good or bad choices depending on circumstance.

[RockingMrE]

@Mvspanky223 People are driven by their need to survive. But they don't actively go out to hurt people. Experiences can lead to trauma, which in turn leads to psychologically unstable people, but this is not the same as suggesting that all people are "evil".

[TableWolfMusic]

@brownie1982ad Anarchic + Capitalist? I've had to think hard about what that would be. That could be somebody who is focused on the furthering of oneself, specifically so they will only interact with others on mutual terms, doing nothing deliberately evil or nothing deliberately good (outside mutual benefit). You know... that doesn't sound a million miles from satanism, which, ironically, may need to accept the presence of Christianity to offset them as "individual" from religion.

[RockingMrE]

@InvincibleNumanist Welcome

[InvincibleNumanist]

Thanks for accepting my response!

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