Originally posted by SimpleTruth
You would like to compare animals to humans? You're confusing relativity in terms of what is good for one side, can be bad for another side, with
relativity in terms of what IS wrong or right. Of course during the holocaust, the extermination of Jews was bad for the Jews, but good for Hitler,
because his goals were being accomplished. In that way an event such as the holocaust is relative to how different parties see it or gain or lose
from it. BUT that has nothing to do with whether or not the actual slaughtering was right or wrong. There is no question, unless one is severely
demented, that Hitler's actions were evil. Wrong. Bad. In this way, relativism should not be factored in or used to explain it. It does NOT apply.
When it comes to good and evil, it is a constant! Not a flexible set of views that depend on the situation.
So was the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki evil?
What about the assault on and killing of British soldiers to gain American independence?
What about the execution of convicted criminals?
What about killing the person with a gun pointed at your daughter's head?
Is any taking of a human life by human hands evil, or is it sometimes morally justified?
And who justifies it?
God?
Didn't he say something like "Thou shalt not kill."
Or was that just a command and not a moral stance?