Moral Relativism
THE INTELLECTUAL DARK WEB PODCAST (HOBBES + LOCKE + ROUSSEAU + US CONSTITUTION in ONE SINGLE BOOK)
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The Conflict of Values
In England, is the acceptance of certain forms of Sharia law within the British legal system? Is that sort of a natural outgrowth of our wanting to treat their understanding of justice as equal to ours and somehow compatible even in the same nation? No, because our nation is founded upon the rule of law. And this law has always been secular. What the law is is settled by parliament and by the courts in obedience to parliament. To say that there should be a Sharia law adjudicated in parallel is effectively to deny that there is a unified nation. We have the view that the ultimate source of authority is the nation's state, defined by its borders. That is the foundation of our obedience.
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