Moral Relativism

Jim,

In your initial post you formed the following question: "If there are moral absolutes as such and there is something existing out in the world that we refer to as "morality" or "moral properties" aren't these people horribly immoral?"

And later you say, "And if you deny this, aren;t you committed to something akin to saying that morality does not exist in the world, that it is something relative - say to time, or anything else?"

My vacuum point is this: Your quote clearly suggests that morality doesn't exist. Adn if morality doesn't exist and you are dealing in absolutes then there is no corresponding immorality.

Is the absolute you are trying to discuss a standard that we can pick up at Barnes and Noble? Which, it seems, everybody agrees there isn't.

Or is your absolute that "morality does not exist in the world"?

From you last post, I'm gathering your absolute is the former. That said, regardless whether it's relative or absolute, it (a presumed act) is something. Regardless of whether we call it morality or immorality or a cucumber, it (the act) is something upon which various judgments will be made.

And again, if your absolute is the Barnes and Noble book of moral behavior standards, then I think we all agree with each other that this doesn't exist.