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To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (106022)	7/17/2003 2:32:34 PM
From: marcos	Read Replies (2) of 281500

I could never understand this charge of 'moral relativism' .... do we not always compare patterns of thought on morality for their relative value and effectiveness? ..... is there any other way to evaluate them? The bunch in the back rooms of DC deciding to slaughter campesinos centroamericanos because it is reported they have in their village a doctor born as cubano, and citing for justification a hastily invented factoid that the village is seventy-two hours by tank from the río Bravo, are they not making a judgment in relative morality? ... i mean leaving aside the fact that it would be quite the tank that could do this, and that no tank drivers had any interest whatsoever in making that trip in the northward direction, it does seem clear that the back room bunch is weighing their own personal values here, finding the murder of civilians to be relatively superior in morality to the alternative process of themselves grabbing a frickin clue The 'Idea' though, it is a great Idea ... and how close we can get to it, relatively speaking in a moral sense, will determine whether we can survive as a species

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