Moral Relativism
God, this argument fatigues me. GB-GIL, yeah, most people aren't or didn't get what you were saying at first. I've read your posts in this thread (all of them) and i understand and vehemently disagree.
You support moral relativism which states, essentially, that my subjective truth equates to a moral objectivity. Nonsense, hogwash, egomania. Sorry, but while you might have a point concerning someone's personal convictions: "I thought I was doing the right thing!" or even, "God dammit! I WAS doing the right thing!!!" This merely means that they didn't go against their own personal convictions. It does not mean that they have followed what is "right."
We say, what is right if different for every man and every culture. The semantic twists in such statement parallel the complexities of human nature. We DON'T know objectively what is right. We might be positively sure in our minds that grass is green. Hell, chlorophyl is green!!! But our eyes aren't sensitive to the red in the color-spectrum. (look up Earthshine on the internet).
anyway, my point is this. We are not God. We disagree on what is right.
Allow me to quote a Zen koan to round off my point here:
"To be uncertain is to be uncomforable; to be certain is to be ridiculous."