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Tim McSweeney wrote in message ...
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> Possibly, I guess my answer to that is simple, In questions of morality
> there is no absolute truth. We may have grown up in a society with rules • so
> strict (such as not eating people) that the seem like absolutes but I • assure
> you they are not, Morals are defined purely by the society we live in, they
> differ, they change and evolve.
Well, I think a lot of people disagree with that on religious grounds, but
since I don't want to get into that I'll disagree with it on
logical/philosophical grounds:
I think all societies have certain underlying morals that can be considered
absolute given that all societies share them. Certain things have to be
wrong or the society would fall apart. Most important among them might be
the prohibition against killing someone in your in group. Out group, maybe,
but not in group. Running around killing people aimlessly has to be wrong,
or the society that thinks it right would go extinct.
Jesse
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| (...) maybe, (...) Not true, Our own society until recently practiced capital punishment, If this isn't sanctioned killing in-Group then I don't know what is. No-one does anything aimlessly, I don't even brush my teeth without some motive. I agree (...) (25 years ago, 9-Feb-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| I agree with Jesse here. Why are you so reluctant to acknowledge the possibility of absolutes? (...) (25 years ago, 9-Feb-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) There are too many things in the world to derive all of them from first principals. I accept all sorts of things that I was taught without reasoning through them fully, I suspect you do as well. If there are some issues that we each feel the (...) (25 years ago, 8-Feb-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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