Thread: Moral Absolutes
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Old 06-11-2007, 07:48 PM
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Originally Posted by SRoper View Post
Why can't someone say "there are no moral absolutes"? That doesn't seem to be a moral statement.
because that person is telling me what I *ought* to believe about morality. He is saying that it is *bad* to believe in absolute morality, which is a moral statement.

In other words, he is assigning value (either good or bad) to moral statements.
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