AUSTRALIA
Brisbane Times
March 6, 2015
Jacqueline Maley
Parliamentary Sketch Writer for The Sydney Morning Herald
This week the former headmaster of Knox Grammar, Ian Paterson, outed himself as a moral relativist.
Moral relativism, the idea that there are no absolute moral principles, that what is “right” depends on the values of the time or the culture in which you live, is usually the refuge of left-wing ideologues who confuse it for cross-cultural tolerance.
It’s not usually adopted by authoritarian WASPs who have built their careers and reputations on upholding the strictest moral standards, or at least, appearing to.
Men like Paterson, part-governors, part-gods, don’t usually go in for that sort of undergraduate nonsense.
And yet that was what Paterson told the Royal Commission this week, in an effort to excuse his historical failure to protect his students from paedophiles in their midst.
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