A/N: The following essay is just MY opinion. If you disagree, then that’s yours. So please, don’t bring this against me.

On Moral Relativism
By Moeru H.

In our world today, because of the so- called maximum tolerance, we somehow compromise the absolute rules that govern our lives. We think that we can only experience total peace if it is coupled with the necessity of compassion at the highest level. Open- mindedness outlines our way of life. To think otherwise would label a person uncivilized. Judgment of actions is irrelevant for beneath every wrong doing is a warranted motive. Do all these make mankind traveling the right path or is he putting himself to further confusion of where he is really meant to go?

When we forget that there are absolutes, we put ourselves in danger for our mind is always under the force of subjectivity, creating an impossibility for impartial judgment. We do injustice if we evaluate things of great consequence only to be decreed by our limited perception.

But how do we define absolute?

Only a law that is outside of human intellect can be called an absolute. For a person who doesn’t believe in a higher power, that is, something/one beyond human, everything absolute comes down to a drain for him/her. There’s no such thing as an absolute for someone who thinks that mankind can bend and twist anything as long as he sees it fit for his personal advantage. This person accepts that fairness and justice are terms invented by men to satisfy their desires. Fairness and justice are bound to change when circumstance expects them to. Everything is the creation of the human mind such that the sense of right and wrong changes if it serves no purpose for the caprice of men. The opposite of absolute is relative and this is the prominent ideology of our world today: relativism. When talking about morality, it is called moral relativism.