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From: mangoe@umcp-cs.UUCP (Charley Wingate)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Who decides on morals?
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Date: Tue, 2-Apr-85 18:59:44 EST
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In article <487@lll-crg.ARPA> muffy@lll-crg.UUCP (Muffy Barkocy) writes:
>Actually, if Hitler had won, he would indeed have been correct.  Not from
>*my* point of view, of course, but I would be dead.  In fact, as I recall,
>he wanted to kill everyone who didn't believe as he did, so the only people
>left alive would be those that agreed with him, or said they did.  Regard-
>less of what you may believe, "right" and "wrong" are societally defined, 
>they are *not* inborn.  Thus, if everyone in my society thinks as I do, 
>then I am right.  If Hitler killed off all the people that didn't think as
>he did, his society would have agreed with him, and he would be right.

So I guess Martin Luther King Jr. was an immoral person, since his morality
was in conflict with his society.  And I suppose that we, as Americans, had
no right to move against Hitler, or to condemn his actions.  Sorry Muffy,
this line of argument was refuted a long time ago.  Pure cultural relativism
just doesn't cut it.

Charley Wingate   umcp-cs!mangoe