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To: Lane3 who wrote (67381)	9/6/2004 1:59:11 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (1) of 793928

I don't believe in absolutes. Terrorism would fall very high on my sliding scale of evil, but I can conceive of an extreme situation where an event could push me out of my normal moral framework and terrorism becomes justifiable. That sliding scale of evil has different trigger points for most of us (as individuals, community, country) where consequentiality can overcome the absolute, imo, and then violation of the codes we live by occurs. Certainly Beslan triggers something in me that would allow me to violate my normal Thou shalt not kill almostabsolute. I think I could look in the eyes of those people and shoot them cold. I'm not sure, though, if that means there are no absolutes, or we just decide the hell with the absolute. I saw an article this morning in the Toronto Star that said some of the Beslan terrorists were appalled when they realized that children were the hostages and this "sparked a dispute in which some of the objecting militants were killed by their own comrades". Itr struck me that even though they had crossed the bright line of absolute morality regarding terrorism and murder, they entered yet another sliding scale of terrorist morality with its own nonos. If the absolute fits, wear it?

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