I didn't say I was a total relativist, please read my posts correctly. I said I am largely a relativist, because I don't think there is one truth to most things, and each situation needs to be observed case by case.
your posts are difficult to read correctly because they are so opaque. You said you're 'largely' a relativist, so I called you Mr. Relativist.
By 'largely,' you mean that you apply your relativism when it's convenient to make your point.
In the case of killing a young person, I don't see the need to kill him. Your question is too vague.
So when I say "Can you justify the indiscriminate killing of a young person, " you're saying that your largely relativistic outlook makes the question too vague? No, it doesn't. Can you or can't you? If you can, take a crack at telling me when it's justifiable to murder a child. If you can't then say so. How is that vague?
There's nothing vague about it, only the way you choose to answer, because relativist views are so diluted and dispersed, you cannot proffer an intelligent answer to justify it. Relatively speaking, of course.
Relativism allows you to come across as ambiguously intelligent, but only because it masks the fact that you have little or no clue as to what your core beliefs are and could not solidly defend them even if you knew.
About your "absolute wrong" of killing a child....what if the child was hypothetically infected somehow with a imaginary virus that spreads through the air by it simply breathing, where it has the capacity to infect and kill several thousand people? In this hypothetical situation, would you kill the child?
Since you're so fond of saying, "Read my post correctly," I find it interesting that you immediately detach from the reality of mine and invoke "imaginary viruses" with conjured up consequences. What that allows you to do is not answer the question, which is right where you want to be.
I did not say "child with an 'imaginary virus' (LOVE that!!). I said wanton murder/indiscriminate killing.
Will your warped sense of relativism allow you to say that the wanton, indiscriminate killing/murder of children is OK or not OK?
Because see, now it's a matter of pride for you. In that you will not allow yourself to answer the question because to do so, you would have to kowtow to my pointing out of the fact that you have a hard time defending your core beliefs behind the shroud of anonymity of the internet and the fog of your highly regarded relativism. And your pride won't allow you to do that.
You think your relativism makes you high minded and socially evolved, when in practice it cripples you from knowing who you are.
Make a stand.
