Declaration of Human Rights

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Originally Posted by Repugnant Abomination

DJFC:


Everyone:

More specifically, I’m interested in the reasons why people are taking the positions they are on the issues that have been brought up thus far – it’s not what your position is but why it is. Which brings me back to the question In my original post – with any position you take, is it absolute? Is there any objectivity when we talk about ideas of things, or is everything subjective, swimming in a sea of relativism? Where does our authority to claim something is right or something is wrong come from? From God? Evidence? Reason?

Explain yourselves.

Essentially I think our authority comes from our reason, although this raises the issue of our reason being imperfect, I think humanity tends towards understanding the essential human rights as time goes on.

Relativism is a good tool for examining cultures and understanding them, but when it comes to ethical debates, relativism breaks down into nothing at all pretty quickly.