# Moral Relativism in the United State Foreign Policy

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [January 20, 2006, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moral-relativism-in-the-united-state-foreign-policy/340745 "2006-01-20T00:02:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2006, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moral-relativism-in-the-united-state-foreign-policy/340745/9 "2006-01-20T00:31:54Z")

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> [@askeptic](#):
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> Might I suggest tiddly winks? You would enjoy it and we would not be subjected to this drivel…

You wouldn’t be subjected to it if you didn’t click the link either. But of course feeling superior on an internet message board has such allure. Don’t worry I feel you, it’s titillating.

Ok, so then what’s moral relativism? I thought it was applying one standard to yourself and another to others. In this case considering it worse for Osama bin Laden to kill civilians than say a member of the air force. Like it’s murder when a brown person does it, it’s defending freedom when a white person does it.

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