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Re: Frog
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Tue, 9 Feb 1999 06:34:55 GMT
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johnneal@uswest./avoidspam/net
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> IMHO, you've got it backwards; it is morally wrong to kill someone, but our
> society says it's okay in certain instances to help things to function.
> Every scensient being has a right to life; or conversely, no sensient being
> has the right to deny another life. Any deviation from that absolute is due
> to the whims of time and culture. We might agree that humans aren't born
> with a sense of right and wrong; it is learned, and it was learned orginally,
> I think, from an absolute (insert Supreme Being [1]).
[1] Although I refer to a being even higher than the one lifted up by the
Larritarians;)
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> I don't deny knowledge of some absolutes, I'm pretty sure that 1+1=2 that's
> an absolute truth.
> *BTW*, does .99999999(repeating forever) = 1?
> but Absolute Morals? nah.... All morals are human constructs. There is no
> physical law that says it's wrong to kill someone, that's just a guideline
> we made up because in our society it helps things to function.
> In the great fuzzy universe of human morals that differ between individuals
> and shift and change over time how can you still insist that Absolutes
> exist? What might SEEM like an absolute to you is just a guideline to
> someone else.
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Message has 2 Replies:
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| sorry, hit that send button a little too quickly... no help outa spell checker...How the $#%@ do ya spell "senshunt"??!! I guess ya have to be it to spell it:( (...) (26 years ago, 9-Feb-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
| | | Re: Frog
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| John Neal wrote in message <36BFD70C.8D95A0E6@u...st.net>... (...) our (...) being (...) due (...) orginally, (...) Aha once again a newsgroup discussion boils down to religion. [1] It is interesting that the only way you can justify your belief in (...) (26 years ago, 9-Feb-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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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 (...) (26 years ago, 9-Feb-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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