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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: Greg or e who wrote (17865)7/10/2001 4:46:24 AM
From: Dayuhan  Read Replies (3) of 82486
 
As soon as you impose anything on anyone, outside of yourself, even within a society that has a majority consensus, you are then enforcing one view over another as being right, or true.

I am obviously not getting through here. I don't know how many time I have to explain this.

The rules we impose on each other have not the faintest F**cking thing to do with what is "true", "right", or "moral". They are simply rules that we have invented to govern ourselves. They are rules that the majority of us have accepted as the best collection of policies available to us at this time. We thhink that they are the best policies available because we think them most likely to create the sort of society we want to live in. We change these policies regularly, according to our perceptions of their effectiveness. We change them to reflect emerging ideas. Sometimes the emerging ideas don't work, and we change our polices back again. The means by which we choose our policies evolve by the same process. We often disgree. Over many generations we have developed ways to resolve these disagreements peacefully, and to compromise.

Of course it's hard to compromise when one guy thinks his idea was revealed by God.

I'm not saying that there's no such thing as right and wrong. I'm saying that we don't DISCOVER what is right and what is wrong. We DECIDE what is right and what is wrong.

There's a big difference.
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