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The operation of the star drive in Robinson's novel relies on a predisposition of the Relativists to engage the mechanism in a specific way.
MIND MELD: Is Science Fiction Antithetical to Religion? 2008
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Relativists or not, the "miners" at least want a decent experience out of the event.
Show of Farce: On the HuffPost bus to the Stewart/Colbert rally Julia Duin 2010
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Relativists believe that there is no objectively superior moral choice in any given situation “whatever works for you”, unlike most teleological or consequentialist theories, which hold that there is a morally superior choice even if the choice is a lesser of two evils.
The Volokh Conspiracy » It’s Official: Kinder, Gentler Military Commissions: 2009
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Relativists believe that there is no objectively superior moral choice in any given situation “whatever works for you”, unlike most teleological or consequentialist theories, which hold that there is a morally superior choice even if the choice is a lesser of two evils.
The Volokh Conspiracy » It’s Official: Kinder, Gentler Military Commissions: 2009
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Megatron seems to be referring to #2 when he talks about anti-Cultural Relativists.
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Relativists say that African culture must be "respected", and it is "imperialist" to interfere, on a par with the vilest parts of our own history.
Johann Hari: Witch-Hunt: The Hidden War on African Women 2009
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Conservatives often differentiate them from us by staying that we are Moral Relativists and that they are Moral Absolutists.
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He could just as well have aimed this barb at the Postmodernists, if they had existed in his day, or the Deconstructionists, or Moral Relativists, or any of the philosophically vacuous people who think human nature as malleable as popular opinion.
The most inaccurate quiz ever superversive 2006
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He is friends with the Relativists, the humans who actually power the ship's propulsion through meditation.
Archive 2008-01-01 Kristen 2008
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John Gribbin cites in "Why is Time Travel Possible that," Relativists have been trying to come to terms with time travel for the past seven years, since Kip Thorne and his colleagues at Caltech discovered -- much to their surprise -- that there is nothing in the laws of physics (specifically, the general theory of relativity) to forbid it.
Nazism, Manipulative Extraterrestrials, and Alternative Realities 2008
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