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Re:Just Say No by knicholes on Friday April 28, 2017 @03:07PM (#14222173)
Depends on your value system, but something that comes to mind is Deontology. You should read about the categorical imperative. To give you a taste, “Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law without contradiction.” – Immanuel Kant, Groundwork of Metaphysic of Morals

This, for example, suggests that lying is absolutely immoral, because if lying were universally accepted as good, we would not be able to trust each other.

Re:Just Say No by jimmyk on Friday April 28, 2017 @03:22PM (#14222294)
Depends on your value system

It seems odd that an absolute would depend on something subjective, doesn't it?

we would not be able to trust each other.

That sounds like a pretty utilitarian concern to me, rather than a contradiction.

Re:Just Say No by alasdair_ on Friday April 28, 2017 @04:01PM (#14222615)
>It seems odd that an absolute would depend on something subjective, doesn't it?

Go deep enough and eventually everything is subjective. Even things like fundamental axioms.

Re:Just Say No by lerpa on Saturday April 29, 2017 @12:05AM (#14224989)
Explanations.

That there exists more than one explanation for a phenomenon, like ethics and moral values, doesn't mean that choosing any of those at random yields a good explanation. It also doesn't mean that there is no valid explanation at all.

That's just lazy not-100%-sure-therefore-I-substituite-my-own-reality-ism.

Re:Just Say No by knicholes on Friday April 28, 2017 @06:00PM (#14223473)
It does seem odd that an absolute would depend on something subjective... existential crises ensues