Thread: Parent's Rights, where do you stand?

Yes, this ties in with gwahir's "Rights Theory" thread in which I took on Syme's stance of morality is subjective to the culture and framework of which you were raised. There is no such thing as

Originally Posted by gwahir

It's generally agreed upon (by me as well) that morality, well defined, is not up for interpretation.

that is not up for interpretation. Yes, to us in Canada, the US, the UK or Australia who have vaguely similar cultures and laws think something like raping of a woman is non-negotiable immoral, but in some cultures that is completely moral.

Like I said in the other thread, we would view stoning a woman to death for having premarital sex to be terribly out of our moral range, but at one time the majority of people agreed that it was the perfectly right thing to do. All morality is completely subjective. I would bet in 3000 years, they may view some of the things we do now as outrageously immoral by their standards, depending if it is a ultra-conservative fascist but blissful utopia or a completely liberal society. Think about abortions, think about the death penalty, think about putting criminals in prison... or the fact that we even have criminals, who's to say that 10,000 years from now future humans (if we still exist) won't view our views on morality horrifically savage?