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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: TimF who wrote (70874)7/23/2003 1:31:56 PM
From: Lazarus_Long  Read Replies (3) of 82486
 
I refer you to Solon's response. Now I think it safe to assume that "Thou shalt not murder" makes it into your "absolute moral code".

But what does that mean? Is self defense "murder"? Or not?

War? Quakers hold that killing in war is as unacceptable as any other time; surely all would agree that at least most of them claim that from their "absolute moral code". But most others claim just the opposite: that, when necessary, it is acceptable to kill human beings to stop the likes of Hitler and Stalin.

Is capital punishment acceptable? There is certainly a division among people who appear to be of good moral character on the question. Therre are those who say that having the state kill Richard Allen Davis is totatlly unacceptable; the state should not have blood on its hands. And others claim death is the only accepatble answer to a man who kidnapped a twelve year old girl from her home and bedroom, raped her, then killed her.

And if you claim one side or the other on any of the above questions, how do you differentiate your personal prejudices from your sense of this "absolute moral code"?

Why pick a magic solution which can be backed with no evidence when, as Solon claims, a reasonable solution is right before you?
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