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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: Neocon who wrote (7007)3/1/2001 1:06:48 PM
From: one_less  Read Replies (1) of 82486
 
I disagree a little bit. "Since one cannot characterize behavior as moral or immoral except against a standard, and that standard consists of obligations, according to standard usage in discussing such matters, you seem to have talked yourself into a dead end. Either you conform your behavior to the standard, which means meeting the obligation, or you don't. If you do, you behave morally. If you don't, you do not."

There were two men who were walking along the coast of Asia. They stopped to observe some poor villagers out on their boat bringing in the catch of the day. The men decided to camp on the beach. When all were thought to be asleep one of the men went to the docked boat and put a hole in it, sinking it to the bottom of the sea. The other man saw this as an illegal and immoral act. He parted ways with the perpetrator. Later he learned that there was an evil war lord who was going down the coast and confiscating any boats he could find to put together a fleet of boats with which to attack and concor the poor villages. The first man who had sunk the boat knew that this boat would be used. He sunk it to save the villagers.

Behaviorally a crime. Knowing the man's intent, not an immoral act at all. Morality is based in intent. The behavior, though a standard punishable by law, may or may not be immoral.

The story was plagerized but I am not saying where from.
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