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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: Solon who wrote (6734)2/27/2001 1:54:42 PM
From: epicure  Read Replies (1) of 82486
 
Well that story sure as heck fits in with what I believe.

No one knows what "good" is, imo. Some people use reason to try to figure it out, others listen to the whisper of their imaginary friend. But whatever "good" we arrive at, we are too limited to know the eventual consequences. Even the most noble seeming actions can have horrible consequences- and the think that seemed good at the time, turns out not to have been good at all.

Morals on the other hand are the social fiction of what is good and proper in your time. Morals are societies pretense of what "good" is. Why do I say pretense? Because society has no more idea of what "good" is in an absolute sense than we do.

So what do we do? Act with compassion and realize that even when we do that we may inadvertently do great harm. But that's the way our existence is framed- we can't know the future- so we are stuck with our puny little conceptions of how the future will play out.
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