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[quote=Anonymous]Here's some moral relativity fory you:

1. Euthanasia, right or wrong?  End suffering or prolong life?  Which is objectively more moral?  What if the person is consumed by debilitating pain every second and cannot eat, speak, or move except to scream at the awful pain?  What if the person is depressed, overweight, and and has a mildly debilitating condition like diabetes?  Ok to kill the first?  Not ok for the second?  If you agree there are objective answers to these questions, please explain exactly at what point euthanasia is ok.

2. What about leaving an old person to freeze to death or be eaten by predators?  Assume that the old person cannot keep up with the rest of the tribe, which lives on icebergs and must keep moving.  If the tribe takes the extra time and resources to care for the elderly, it will not be able to feed the young and healthy, who will themselves become sick and perhaps endanger the tribe's survival.  Assume the old person is perfectly aware of and agrees this is the right thing to do.  Is it objectively moral?

3. Assume there is a god.  The god tells a believer to do an objectively immoral act, like sacrifice a baby.  Is the act still immoral?  Compare and contrast your answer if the believer is an Aztek priest on the one hand or Abraham on the other.

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