No, morals are relative, just that. We probably have similar morals as frequenters of a tech website site in English compared to hunter gatherers, so we can even have this discussion in the first place. I haven't been convinced that there's anything universal about the morals we hold across species let alone sapiens in the past 10,000 years or across cultures.

Unless your definition of moral absolutism only encompasses humans living today (with the implication that technology makes certain things possible), which I might agree with.

> No, morals are relative, just that.

And yet by focusing on and stating "just that," you steer the conversation away from the concrete action that this whole thread was started about.

We're not going to resolve moral relativism vs absolutism in a web form, nor should that be a necessary pre-requisite for condemning the immoral behaviour of a company.

It's one thing to debate if the particular action in question is good or not. It's another to attempt to invalidate the entire debate by stating that "morals are relative."

You may think you're just stating "morals are relative, just that," but in reality, the context within which you state it serves only to move the discussion away from the morals of the act in question into some abstract debate about morals in general. It's a distraction. Sometimes the "root cause" cannot be resolved and we should focus on the symptoms and more surface level issues.

I'm sorry if I gave the impression that I'm using this to defend Prezi or something.

The parent comment I originally responded to was about jobs they found morally objectionable and an Upton Sinclair quote.

My reply was about how some people don't actually find those jobs objectionable.

Then the reply to that was about moral relativity (which okay, now we're getting into philosophy).

And now we're about to discuss the purpose of a web forum, but that seems even more meta than this conversation.

I guess in summary, I agree we have veered off of course (arguably the original comment had very little to do with this Prezi incident), but I also think these side discussions are interesting. If you don't want to chat about philosophy you don't have to and it's okay if some people are wrong on the internet.