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Re: ...but Japan didn't agree with that assessment.
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Fri, 2 Nov 2001 08:28:53 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Christopher L. Weeks writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Arthur writes:
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> > So we should "go with the flow", accept morals which we as individuals do
> > not agree with? I'm not saying either moral relativism or objectivism is
> > "wrong" or "right", I just think most of us operate in the middle-ground...
> > I may be wrong.
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> At the same time that I won't accept morality with which I do not agree, I must
> live in a system in which a common morality has been developed. I don't see
> anything wrong with lots of things that are against the law, so I base my
> activities on a combination of what I want and what the consequences are. Is
> that what you mean by a middle ground? If so, it's not "most of us," it's all
> of us.
Clearly, it is not all.
> No one agrees 100% with the body of law under which they live.
I don't quite agree. But in most cases - yes.
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> In your case, it does seem that you value the majority opinion on right and
> wrong much more than I, or most Americans(?), do.
I have no idea where I stand relative to you or your countrymen?
Scott A
> Or did I read that wrong?
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> Chris
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