The Moral Intuition of Human Rights

"I might have a very strong moral reaction to the effect that it's wrong for people in China to be tortured," he says. "But by the time you get back to the past, the extension of the notion of a moral judgment makes a moral judgment about something that was in the far past." The relativist generally presents us with a view of human life, which seems to be completely wrong, writes Frida Ghitis.