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Re: Frog
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Tue, 9 Feb 1999 03:07:36 GMT
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johnneal@/antispam/uswest.net
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I agree with Jesse here. Why are you so reluctant to acknowledge the
possibility of absolutes?
> >
> > 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.
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> 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.
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Message has 3 Replies:
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| John Neal wrote in message <36BFA673.677B4B70@u...st.net>... (...) For the same reason I'm reluctant to acknowledge the existance of Bright pink elepahnts, They don't exist! I don't deny knowledge of some absolutes, I'm pretty sure that 1+1=2 (...) (25 years ago, 9-Feb-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
| | | Re: Frog
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| (...) Why are you and Jesse sure that there are? I don't know. I'm not sure that there are absolutes, though the argument for in-group "murder" being inherently bad being embedded in the human psyche is strong, so is the argument for all such things (...) (25 years ago, 9-Feb-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| John Neal wrote in message <36BFA673.677B4B70@u...st.net>... (...) Because it is difficult to declare absolutes in a relative world; because it makes people uncomfortable to think that there is a right and a wrong, and thus that there is a (...) (25 years ago, 9-Feb-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Frog
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| Tim McSweeney wrote in message ... (...) so (...) assure (...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 9-Feb-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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