trangbang68,

Who said anything about moral “relativism”? I certainly didn’t. I have a very strict morality, and it’s not relative at all. It merely arises from first principles other than “because God made it so.”

Societies where every man defines good and evil for himself have already lost their freedom as well as any hope of community.

You are wrong about the freedom part, I’m not sorry to say. But you are correct that certain assumptions need be held in common in order for community to function. That’s why the American Bill of Rights is so important, and why America can absorb immigrants more effectively than any other nation. Our Bill of Rights is our common morality and hope of community (What? You thought Christianity is what unites America? Certainly not.). That’s why it’s so important to safeguard it.

South Central L.A. is an example of a culture not where each person defines good and evil, but rather one where gang leaders have abandoned the very concept of catholic good and evil in exchange for power.