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Originally Posted by ManlyBanisters  Then your morality isn't absolute it is relative.
May I ask a question? I'll assume I may 
If I offered you a chimp steak sandwich or the oportunity to press the button to give a lethal injection to someone I told you was a murderer (you haven't seen the evidence yourself, you have to take my word for it) - which would you take?
Just so you know I'd be chowing down on chimp - hell, I'd go out and catch and kill the little cutie myself, and his mama too, rather than press that button. |
It isn't relative ... I'll go further
Assume the scenario I'm in the English Channel, no, make that English Bay ... actually, the Gulf of Mexico outside of Galveston ( I keep forgetting the Mother country and Canada do not have the death penalty -- Texas still does)
I'm on one of week-end sails ... I notice a japanese traveler about to hurl a hand-held harpoon at a pod of Texas dolphins ... having my handgun at the ready, even on my yacht (it is Texas), I shoot at the would-be harpoonist ... the harpoon is picked up his young daughter, and, of course, I shoot at her, as well ... being the excellent shot I am, I kill both of them
I would turn myself in to the Texas authorities
I would confess ... the trial decision is against me
Japan's government would urge the death penalty? the japanese people?
I would accept the verdict and punishment ... I would not apologize to the nipponese ...
Any morals relativism there?