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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: Solon who wrote (59135)9/20/2002 12:10:16 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 82486
 
Solon most of your post was effectively an attack on the idea of objective morality. We have our disagreements there but that is not the current issue. If, for the sake of argument, I assume your premise that people invent what is right and wrong, and that each person invents this for himself we are still left with the fact that people do go against what they have decided (or invented if you like the word better) for themselves is right or wrong. Maybe some bank robbers don't feel that stealing from banks is wrong but I find it odd if you are trying to assert that none of them think of their own actions as being immoral. I'm not talking about someone comparing their actions to the moral code of their best friend, or to that of Bosnian society but to their own moral code or moral ideas, then realizing that the actions are defined as immoral under their personal moral code, but going ahead and doing the actions anyway.

Tim
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