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Friedrich Nietzsche (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) The appeal of ethical relativism is rather plain to see. If there is no right and wrong then I can't be convicted of any wrong. Ethical relativism allows me to write my own law , to edit on the fly, to finish "I may do this . . ." with an unassailable ". . . because I want to." Desire becomes its own justification. My will becomes my law. This appeal, however, soon enough begins to dissipate if we have any interest at all in being coherent, consistent in our thinking.  We quickly turn, "I may do this, because I want to" into "You may not do that, because I want to do this." Consider, just as an example, homosexual sexual perversion . The problem, morally speaking, with homosexual sexual perversion is that it is an abomination to God .  Ethical relativism, of course, bars God from the conversation. Therefore there is no reason by which we might condemn the practice. There is, to these...

Image via Wikipedia We are witnesses of a society in which, in many respects, morality has ceased to exist. We are called ever more urgently to the new evangelization of our culture. Our problem is “ moral relativism ,” which has even entered into the thinking of some theologians in the Church and which has provided an ideological foundation for a culture which is predominantly marked by violence and death. We think, for instance, of the justification of the murder of the unborn child in the womb as the exercise of the right of the mother to choose, weighing other goods, whether to bring to term the baby she has conceived; the justification of the abhorrent practices of the artificial generation of human life and its destruction, at the embryonic stage of development, as the means to obtain supposed cures for crippling or deadly diseases; the justification of the so-called “mercy killing” of those who have the first title to our care, our brother Image via Wikipedia s and sisters wh...