5stringJeff
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Originally posted by Spirit_Soul
Fact: Morals even though they only are developed through cultural influence exist to maintain harmony in the society. You have to agree with me on this point.
Do they? Or do they exist because they were given to us by a supreme Being who knows, better than we do, how we should live our lives?
My opinion: Ofcourse the morals are needed to have certain balance and sanity in the society but we should not take them to such an extreme that they start disrupting the very sanity of the public.
You may say that the moral values of the majority dominate thus making all the individuals subordinate to those values whether they like them or not. But If that were an absolute law in this universe then we could say that there wouldn't be an independent state of America, you would still be "british" and I would be somewhere bound to my dead spouse and burned alive in India.
What I said was exactly the opposite: "While democratic societies obviously change their laws from time to time, what is morally right or wrong cannot be determined by majority rule." It is either morally right or morally wrong to bury a woman alive with her dead husband, regardless of the cultural norms. (BTW - I have to believe that this is wrong.)
I am not saying that let the murderers murder and rapers rape, and we should not even go there because they are the extremities of this issue. The problem arises when the freedom of certain individuals is threatened with out them harming anyone and due to something which they cannot control (sexual orientation).
Today, the homosexuals while practicing their own sexual orientation do not cause any sort of damage externally to any one. If they are taking health risks it is limited to themselves and not to other people. How can you compare a horrible experience such as rape to homosexuality? Please explain this to me.
Anyway, the point is this : Homosexuals are not hurting anyone, leave them alone.
First, I don't think that homosexuality is something which a person cannot control; it is a lifestyle choice. In fact, many in the gay community are coming out (no pun intended) and saying as much.
Secondly, the reason that I talked about rape and murder is because it shows that moral relativism is not valid. I realize they are extreme examples; that's why I used them.