Well, I guess I probably should have made the topic...
Universal Truth/Morality
Well, I guess I probably should have made the topic something more specific, but I'll still finish this one with the set parameters. You claim that morality is not relative on the grounds that some morals are just confused. Who is to say what morals are correct? In response, you might say, just because no one can know, that doesn't mean there isn't one correct moral code. But again, I believe that perception is reality. To most of us, one plus one equals two. But to someone who doesn't know what numbers or addition is, they don't agree. In their minds, it is correct, and, for them that is true. For example, let's take the movie, the Truman Show. Truman truly believed that his "friends" and "family" were real who they said they were. His reality turned out to be false his whole life. How do you know that the reality that you know to be true is really not? For all you know, your life could be a TV show. I know this is a totally ridiculous thing to say, but really, you don't know. That is why nothing can be universal. Because no one can prove that their is one answer, there can't be just one. However, you could prove that morality is relative because of the millions of different perspectives people have. To simply say, "I think everyone else's moral code is wrong, therefore there is only one universal truth and that truth is mine." Everyone will always think differently and no one can change that. That is why I think that truth/morality cannot be universal. Now, the Holocaust. It is true that most people believe that the Holocaust was completely wrong. But there are many (Solerman1969) that think the Holocaust was justified. Although these people are racist bigots, their moral standards tell them that they are right in defending genocide. In other words, the Holocaust was really not objectively wrong, but subjectively, because some people still disagree. I'm not supporting the Holocaust or genocide or anything, I'm just stating the fact that if truth/morality really was universal, everyone would believe the exact same thing. We wouldn't have opinions or personal beliefs. You would have to be insane to believe otherwise.