[lbo-talk] The Matrix of Terror

Dennis Perrin dperrin at comcast.net
Sat May 24 16:04:11 PDT 2003



> He may be engaging in ambiguation because he suspects that a nihilist
> could assert that the ethical limits are contestable and deconstructable
> and that asserting the former begs the question[s] at issue. We won't even
> go into the issue of who gets to decide what Greater Good means.
>
> Ian

In other words, a form of moral relativism, more or less. This would make the Greater Good highly subjective, and in certain hands, explosive.

DP



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