There is no moral high ground any more. Anyone who tries to take a moral high ground and actually say there is clearly a right and a wrong is vilified and painted as a prudish Puritan trying to set the clock back 100 years.
Without the clear and accepted right or wrong, we have the "I would never tell anyone what they should do" culture that is becoming more and more extreme. And quite frankly, the way it is playing out, people are getting hurt. A lot of people are getting hurt. And the people who are doing the hurting are justified by a society and a culture who says, "you have to decide for yourself what is right for you."
Well, as I said in an earlier post, I'm all for self-determination. But, when our desires and choices effect the lives and well-being of other human beings, doesn't our society need to stand up for the vulnerable and the victims?
In this past weeks news we see the tale of two colleges playing out. Penn State with it's child molestation scandal and the controversy of "Sex Week at Yale". If you don't know about Sex Week at Yale, freshman are given the opportunity to attend workshops on oral sex, porn stars promote their industry and masturbation contests are held. No one seems to dare to suggest there may be a connection between promoting sexual deviancy on the one hand, and the harm that comes from someone taking that deviancy to the extreme on the other hand.
It just seems a little absurd to me that in an anything goes culture, that anyone would be surprised about Sandusky's misconduct or dare I say appalled. And yet we are appalled, because we KNOW that children were hurt. So anything doesn't go, but who gets to draw the line?
Here's the parallel to abortion: In September, a Tennessee woman gave birth to twins and immediately killed them: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/09/15/national/main20106760.shtml
Why are we surprised and appalled by this when literally the day before, she could have had an abortion at a late term abortion clinic and it would have (in some states) been legal and ok. And we're not appalled by that. Really, what difference does a day make? And who drew that line?
That's the question that moral relativism leaves us with. Where to draw the line for you is different from mine, so how do we decide which one is right? In the meantime, children are literally being raped and killed.
