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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (70942)7/23/2003 7:15:25 PM
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"If not, then how do you get the same answer to "Is war murder?"

You do not get the same answer. You get two person's subjective opinions. Even if you get two individuals who agree that war is not murder they may disagree on whether or not an act of murder can take place within the practice of war. Your question should be whether or not we can determine which one is correct using an absolute moral code. My answer is probably the same as yours. We cannot determine which one is correct with absolute certainty. We can only have our opinions about it.

We can agree on the idea: Murder is the unjust killing of innocent victims with malfeasance. Is that good or bad? Common now…Isn’t it pretty obvious that will have unanimous agreement among sensible human beings that it is a bad “idea?” If so, it is an absolute.

Ideas are not the same as the application of the idea. So, as soon as we have an application “so and so killed someone” we are able to have a view-point on whether or not the act qualifies as murder. We have no absolute method of determining which if any of us are correct. So we have moral ideals and applications of morality. Two different things. Whether or not you agree that the former represents an absolute can we agree that they are two different but associated things?
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