Why Moral Relativism Is Dangerous
“Today, there seems to be only one absolute thing: relativism”. —Joseph Goebbels, Hitler’s Minister of Propaganda
Relativism is bullshit. Okay, maybe that’s not the most eloquent way of saying it, but it’s true.
Relativism insists that everything is relative, which, besides being a contradiction (because if everything is relative then so is the statement that everything is relative), it’s also dangerous. And it’s on the rise.
Right now millions of people are adopting a relativistic philosophy toward life, toward truth, toward meaning, and toward, well, just about everything.
Some call themselves deconstructionists. Others call themselves postmodernists. Most don’t know that their beliefs fall under moral relativism because they’ve never learned about philosophy, or they espouse morally relative principles while denying the name that describes their beliefs.
What they all have in common is a shared perspective that endangers the world. How?
Because if the truth becomes relative, then we can no longer rely on reality, and if we can no longer rely on reality, the world basically jumps off a cliff into chaos.
