Genuine Right and Wrong ?
(Beyond Ourselves #17)
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Is there such a thing as genuine right and wrong?
Between 1940 and 1945, more than a million people were killed in the concentration camps at Auschwitz and Birkenau.
Many people in Nazi Germany at that time thought there was nothing wrong with what was done there. Today, we think it was a dreadfully evil act of murder.
We do not really believe that it would be wrong for us to do this now, but it was alright for them then, because people believe different things at different times and places.
We think that what they did was absolutely wrong – it would have been wrong anywhere, at any time. Even if everyone in the world believed that it was alright to murder large numbers of people, it would still be wrong.
We do not really believe that society decides what is right and wrong. Whatever we say, we do think there is a standard of right and wrong outside of us, over and above what our society tells us.
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