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Originally posted by sgtclub
If I understand you right I find this incredible. You are (1) backing moral relativism and (2) you are giving priority to a nation's sovereignty over human life?
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1) I am not backing moral relativism, so much as arguing that it is impossible to adopt moral absolutism as a political strategy. We simply haven't the means, militarily, economically, or morally, to dictate to the world what is and is not acceptable behavior and back that up by force.
2) I am giving sovereignty priority over human life only because we live in a world of conflicting social, economic, political, and religious systems. Since we aren't God(s), we cannot in an absolute moral sense claim superiority over any other belief system or sovereign nation. Therefore, we must live by a system of laws. International law dictates that we may not invade another sovereign nation at will.
3) Every single day, nations, societies, people, give one life priority over another. In our own society, we have chosen to limit welfare. As a result, people die of hunger, exposure, or crime every day. Our helath care system doesn't provide for the best possible care for all persons. As a result, people die of treatable or curable dsieases for lack of resources to pay for treatment.
Your own political beliefs, as voiced here repeatedly, don't meet an absolute moral standard. Why do you profess to be shocked that anyone else is a moral relativist when you are one yourself?
