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Subject:	Re: 22/7 & infinities (was: Re: The nature of the JC god, good or evil?)
Newsgroups:	lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date:	Wed, 25 Aug 1999 04:27:32 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek <lar@voyager.net> writes: > [...] > Most animals don't have moral codes. Their faculties are not up to it. A > wolf about to tear the throat of a rabbit out is not making a moral > judgement, it is merely trying to live. So animals are amoral. That's > not good, not bad, that's just where they are on the evolutionary > ladder. > > <maybe some animals do... I will not go down that road, though, it's a > false refutatory> IMHO, it's difficult not to conclude that bonobo apes probably have the mental faculties for moral codes. --Todd

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		Re: 22/7 & infinities (was: Re: The nature of the JC god, good or evil?)
(...) So stipulated. I did use both "Most" and "maybe" in my post. Doesn't dilute the argument... (25 years ago, 25-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

		Re: 22/7 & infinities (was: Re: The nature of the JC god, good or evil?)
(...) No, you're right, it doesn't. I apologize for sounding cross. I didn't mean my statement as something intended to refute your larger argument but instead simply a tangent intended to express some amount of disbelief in creationism. While I (...) (25 years ago, 25-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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		Re: 22/7 & infinities (was: Re: The nature of the JC god, good or evil?)
I'll respond to this one first, and Jesse's maybe later. (...) Hopefully I didn't come off as TOO self-righteous, because that would be a flaw, and I don't have any. :-) I think that's great, but why do you do it? If (...) Good question. I could (...) (25 years ago, 24-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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