Everybody “just knows” murder is objectively wrong, as is genocide, and nobody doubts that torturing babies is everywhere and always absolutely, fundamentally immoral.
Right? Right?? Believe it or not, there are those who would not agree with the preceding statement. They deny that anything like objective truth exists, that what we accept as “truth” is actually relative to time, place, tradition, conventional wisdom, and so forth.
Cross-examined.org’s Dr. Frank Turek was engaged recently in a discussion about this issue with a sharp young man who appears to be a philosophy major. Their exchange was a good one from both sides and instructive for anybody involved in public policy issues:
