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Yes it is lol. We've literally had Republicans encouraging bombing of abortion clinics for decades. In terms of violence over political disagreements Democrats have a shit load of catching up to do.
Violent anti-abortion extremism is a good example of that sort of moral absolutism in action. I can find about 7 murders on wiki over the last 30 years. Which Republican president encouraged those bombings? Or are you saying that to be anti-abortion is inherently violent?
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Your second paragraph is just peak irony. You accused the left for a literal decade of falling into moral relativism and rejecting objective ethics and shit. I remember it because it precipitated a ton of conversations about subjective vs objective morals.
I really don't have any recollection of what you're talking about. What I'd say is that morals are relative by definition, but that we are under no obligation to treat all moral beliefs equally.
Our preference for Enlightenment liberalism, Classical education, and Anglo-Saxon individualism stems from the fact that it gave us one of the wealthiest and most powerful nations in history. But the Japanese do things very differently, and as long as the end product is good, no one bats an eye. Where the product is frankly awful (e.g. Islamic State), we all have a pretty big problem. Religion does attach absolute importance to at least some moral tenets, but in the United States that's expressed via European Christianity, as filtered through the prisms of the Enlightenment and all of the other things we just discussed. That's why you don't find American Christians running around lynching witches.
This post was edited by bogie160 on Sep 23 2022 08:59am