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To: Solon who wrote (32198)	10/12/2001 6:54:23 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) of 82486

A BASICALLY good person (according to you) can commit evil but still be "good" because the intent or intellect was not there. This is totally contrary to philosophical and theological teachings of absolutism. You are speaking of relativism. No because I am calling the action absolutely wrong or evil. I find the question of whether the action was motivated by evil within the person who commits it slightly more complex, but the action is evil regardless of the motivation for it. Absolutism means that all actions are absolutely right or wrong, better or worse. Not the way I see it. Some actions are morally neutral. Some are evil. Some are good. I would consider myself an absolutist if I said any action was absolutely evil or good. I would only call my self a relativist if I said all morality was relative. If I say some moral ideas might be relative and some things are morally neutral that does not make me a relativist in my opinion. If it does by your definition of the word relativist then I guess you can call me one but it doesn't mean I don't believe in moral absolutes and I find it hard to see how a relativist would believe in any moral absolutes. Tim

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