Tolkien & killling?

[aragornreborn]

Nyneve, I certainly never meant to say you are odd. And I don't think anyone else meant too, either. Yes, there are many opinions on good and evil. All I'm saying, however, is that there is one right one. However exclusive and and politically incorrect that may sound, I believe it is true.

Galadriel of the Olden, I know Bill (By the way, Bill, I haven't used fruit in my last few posts!) seemed like he was taking your philosophy to dangerous and scary levels. But what he is saying is right. Moralistic relativism can lead to all those things no matter how innocent or admirable it may start out. It's not like us absolutists want to force our standards on anyone. That's because they're not our standards. If they were standards created by man, then yes, I'd agree with you. I have no right to force my personal standards on you. But, if these standards are beyond man, which they must be to be absolute standards, than they are not mine at all. They are the truth. And there is nothing wrong with trying to tell someone the truth. It's wrong if you don't.

I just meant that people have to work out their own moral standards because the law and whoever you believe in will generally not be enough to keep the whole world in check.

But that's what will happen if you let people work out their own moral code. Because your own moral code is actually no moral code. You change it to fit your situations. After all, it's yours. You can change it if you think you need to (it might be something little like eating another brownie or it could be something worse). You're right, the whole world is not being kept in check. But that's not because there is no standard and that's not because the standard is flawed. It's because people aren't willing to accept or find the standard. The solution isn't to ignore the standard and just lower it so the standard is just whatever people want it to be. That leads to anarchy and complete chaos. The solution is to find the standard, accept it, believe it, and follow it.