Regardless, I shall begin.
Absolutes piss me off. Whatever you might say, there's always an argument to be made against it, or a different point of view. Mankind has constructed what is socially acceptable and what isn't. And this construct of ours is dynamic, it is ever changing, due to the fact that people tend to disagree on things. And no one has the power to decide that what he says is the absolute, infallible truth, unless of course you're suggesting that an infallible entity. And what were we taught in school, children? That infallible all-knowing beings don't exi- wait, what?
Ah, humour. A lovely thing. Now... where was I... ah, yes.
Allow me to explain further. Take for example all these nuts going around saying that one man killing another can never be acceptable, let's call one said nut "Bob." Now let's have a homicidal maniac, who we'll call "Bill", rape and kill (or kill and rape; whichever he might prefer) all of Bob's family. Now I'd be willing to bet all the money in my pocket (admittedly it's not much) that Bob's stance has changed, and that Bob would very much like to see Bill hanged from his testicles. Not because Bob's a hypocrite, but because his situation's changed, and quite for the worse. Poor Bob.
Now, each person is different, and each situation is different. Each situation shall be seen be each person differently. That's quite a few variables. But how can you know for certain that the "colour blind" aren't seeing the world the way it's supposed to be seen? Millions of people could find something perfectly acceptable, and millions could find it reprehensible. Who's to say which side is right?
You may come to me and argue that some things are absolute, and I will simply agree to disagree. Cause we see things differently and, well, everything is relative.
Everything is relative, you say? Is that an absolute truth? And if everything is relative to something else...well let me put it this way- A is relative to B which is relative to C etc etc.... Now who's to say that L isn't absolute? In fact in some cases it is very easily proven that relative objects all relate to something absolute. A VERY VERY VERY simplistic example : The time when I begin to prepare to leave the house is relative to what bus I am going to catch. The bus I'm going to catch is relative to the bus schedule. The bus schedule is relative to the time of year. The time of year is absolute- the year continuously follows the same cycle- Winter will never be right after summer, for example. Hence several relative cases all depend on a single absolute case.
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