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I have known lots of people who believe that; some even realize they believe it. Joel Send a noteboard - 27/02/2012 02:31:48 PM
people who think eating OTHER people, stoning them for their sexuality, gunning them down over drug money, lynching them because of their race etc. is also "fine."

Name people who think that, please. Five will suffice.

When we take the attitude that every belief is equally valid, none is inherently better than another, all are no more than cultural conditioning, that means EVERYTHING. So anyone and everyone who argues for moral relativism is arguing for moral nihilism, whether or not they put aside their affected ennui or naïve idealism long enough to investigate their beliefs and discover that.

Let us say, just for the sake of argument, that I am being intolerant; I strongly deny that suggestion, but as an exercise let us pretend otherwise: So what if I were? According to the Nietzschean law of lawlessness we are Beyond Good and Evil, so what place does anyone have to criticize or condemn intolerance? Is not the whole point that no one has any right to criticize or condemn anything, because it is just someone elses culturally conditioned norm, entitled to as much (or little) respect as our own? Do as you will shall be the whole of the law; surely if that excuses peoples urge to brutalize each other it excuses my urge to prevent their brutality. If not, well, their brutality has no excuse, so the only thing left to decide is WHY I can rightly oppose it.

If liberated enlightenment dictates that "if it feels good, do it," and opposing that with every legal means I have makes me feel good, what is wrong with that, when NOTHING is truly "wrong," only "diverse"? At least I am not inflicting injury or death on anyone, whether as a product of my cultural norm or otherwise.
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