Moral relativism
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Who says they must be, or must have been?
Absolutists. Christians and most religions.
Can you be more specific? Maybe cite some original sources?
You spend your entire day on grok and you still don't know how to get information?!
They shouldn't be.
I would lie to Nazis if they asked me if I knew where Jews were hiding, and I did in fact know.
So you disagree with Kant. So do I.
They are part of the instinctual machinery of social animals. Which is why the large stuff like "murder" is wrong across societies but not the smaller stuff (like personal space etc.)
It is also why murder is not considered wrong when another animal does it.
The only people who fear "relative" morality are those who have decided that morality is magical and from beyond space and time (no evidence for that, but plenty of evidence for social animals developing modes of behavior that are acceptable and unacceptable).
If you believe God is the reason why murder is wrong then you are threatened whenever someone suggests God doesn't necessarily exist.
You do less harm to humanity and your conscience blatantly lying to Nazis than you would do by leading them to the hiding places of Jews
Then your morality is relative. You just prioritize one moral behavior over another based on the situation.
If morality were absolute then lying would be wrong not matter what.
People like me can easily lie to Nazis and not really give a fuck whether it is right or wrong. Utilitarianism is your friend.
No. Moral relativism is the worldview that cheating and lying are not objectively and absolutely wrong. It has nothing to do with whether you are justified in misleading mass murders in order to save innocent lives.
You do less harm to humanity and your conscience blatantly lying to Nazis than you would do by leading them to the hiding places of Jews
But you could have already informed yourself with grok. Clearly you are a troll.
Absolutists think a God or transcendent reality governs morality.
Example by Kant of the murderer at the door.
Good assessment.
But you just refuted that in deciding it is moral to lie sometimes.
It is exactly that.
Because I asked you for examples of your own position?
I gave it in the original post. You should have told me you did not understand it and I would have helped you.