Because people change through time, however, something that is true or good for a person today might not be so tomorrow.
Nothing is true or good for all people at all times.
Author William Watkins has noticed, and he's recorded his thoughts in a new book titled, The New Absolutes. He says that, rather than abandoning absolutes, we are simply adopting new ones to replace the old . We are betrayed, he says, by our behavior. Evidence that Watkins is right is seen in the glut of lawsuits in the courts, calls for law and order in politics, moral outrage over various offenses, cries for human rights, and the spreading of liberal democratic ideas to other countries. Americans have an idea of what is right, and we think others should agree with us.