what gets my goat also are the moral relativists - it seems a cop out to resort to "it's depends on one's perspective", or "what's wrong to you may be right to me" because it often indicates an unwillingness (or maybe inability) to take the issue to its logical conclusion in preference for leaving it in the safety of an indeterminate miasma.
surely relativist positions suit opinion, not morality best. an act that is wrong but has extenuating circumstances, for example, is not right under such circumstances and wrong under others - it is still wrong but understandable, or permissible, or forgiveable. the morality of the fact does not alter, only the adequacy of response to it. non-moral issues need no such finesse.
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