I am not afraid to engage someone who thinks morality is not absolute, whether they see it as either arbitrary or conditioned. What I like to do is to slowly point the discussion to the fact that in order to propose their views of morality they eventually appeal to a set of morals which by their own standards are not arbitrary at all, but rather seem to be the very absolutes they are denying.

The interesting thing that usually comes of this is that people recognize where this is going. They sense the dead-end that they are headed for. But what interests me is where the they go from there. It is one thing to know the logical conclusions of certain arguments, but it is another to see where people go with their arguments. This can be a lot like music, in that there are so many variations possible on the same theme.

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JohnV

John Vandervliet
Ontario, Canada
member of: Canadian Reformed Church
"In coming to understand anything we are rejecting the facts as they are for us in favour of the facts as they are" C.S Lewis, An Experiment in Criticism