Is Morality a Matter of Taste?

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Is Morality a Matter of Taste?

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For anyone who's ever dabbled in the tricky pastime of trying to identify your own moral code.

http://www.secularhumanism.org/library/ ... _18_4.html
"People should buy our toaster because it toasts bread the best, not because it has the only plug that fits in the outlet" - Robert Morris, Almaden Research Center (IBM)

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Great article. Now I can bash all those cultural relativists.

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An actually useful article. Cool. However, we won't be starting the arguement now, will we?
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