but it can also be regarded in a different way: an adult is intending to harm a child (the precise mechanism of such harm is irrelevant), and an adult is intending to help a child (the precise mechanism of such help is irrelevant). It's a matter of generalization; and it allows one to focus on behavior more abstractly (which may be key to deciding whether a behavior is moral, or in keeping with social/cultural mores).
As I stated above, I'm not sure that you've shown that moral absolutes have nothing to do with universal Truth, simply that they need not have anything to do with it. And, as I've stated elsewhere, I'm not sure that absolute Truth (some core statement or statements true throughout the universe) need necessarily be universal (that is, if they exist, they need not tell us about everything in the universe). |
