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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: Greg or e who wrote (5791)2/14/2001 1:16:39 PM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) of 82486
 
Wow ! Does it get any easier than this? When I read X's impassioned plea
for Human rights I nearly spit my coffee all over my computer.

Greg, I don't know what you're looking for from me. An explanation, perhaps. I wouldn't presume to try to interpret X. I first met her quite a while back on the Elian Gonzalez thread. I've heard her impassioned pleas about mistreatment and suffering a number of times over time so my computer was in no danger from my morning beverage.

Yet she and I have both argued here that there is no such thing as absolute rights. X uses the word, relativism, in conjunction with her approach to right and wrong. I don't claim to fully understand it. My own perspective is more libertarian. Regardless of how she gets there or how I get there, I know that it's possible to hold the view that there is no absolute morality and still have a strong sense of right and wrong. Since I can do it, it follows that it's feasible for others to do so. There's no reason that I have to understand how she does it to respect her assertion that it's done.

With regards to intervention into the conduct of other countries or other persons within our own country or community or family, that could turn into an interesting topic. I don't know that we have to first establish whether or not rights are absolute before we can discuss it.

Karen
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