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Re: Are we doing the right thing?
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Wed, 5 Sep 2001 21:35:19 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, James Simpson writes:
> who have wronged you.
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> > How do you know that? Which people have done what to you? How can you say
> > that killing them is worse than what they did or would do? Who is innocent?
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> Who is innocent of butchery, rape, and terrorism? Why, those who have not in
> fact buthered, raped, and terrorized.
Forgive my bad ettiquette, but an edit is in order; This sentence should read
"Why, those who have in fact butchered, raped, and terrorized."
james
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| (...) The presence of gray areas in any moral calculus, i.e., moral conundrums, does not negate moral principles. In some circumstances we do not know what the right thing to do is, but in all circumstances we can determine what is definitely not (...) (23 years ago, 5-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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