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Politics : Should God be replaced?
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To: average joe who wrote (2275)10/22/2000 10:55:52 PM
From: Dayuhan  Read Replies (2) of 28931
 
The quote in question, from some manifesto or another, was:

"We affirm that moral values derive their source from human experience. Ethics is autonomous and situational needing
no theological or ideological sanction."

Your comment was:

I don't think Aristotle would have agreed but I think most child molesters would.

I'm not much for manifestos; I think reading them is very nearly as much a waste of time as writing them, and I certainly don't place much credence in anything written by people who don't understand that the word "ethics" is a plural noun.

However, I don't see why a child molester should take any comfort in the notion that people should decide whether acts are permissible or not based on the logically projected or empirically verified consequences of those acts, rather than basing their decisions on the revealed word of some deity that might not even exist.
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