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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: cosmicforce who wrote (33364)10/16/2001 6:26:07 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 82486
 
Right: Conforming with or conformable to justice, law, or morality
Morality:The quality of being in accord with standards of right or good conduct.
Standards: An acknowledged measure of comparison for quantitative or qualitative value; a criterion.

Now, Tim, which of these can be experienced in vacuo.

The first two according to your definition if you believe in absolute morality or moral ideas. The third one would by the definition you provide require that there be someone to acknowledge it. But that is not the only definition, not even the only definition that dictionary.com provides.

BTW - If I had the ability to destroy the universe, and either God doesn't exist or is considered to be part of the universe and is thus destroyed as well, and if in doing so I kill myself because I am part of the universe would doing so be an evil act? Would it cease to be an evil act as soon as I did it because there would be no one left to judge me?

Tim
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