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To: Lane3 who wrote (71020)	7/28/2003 11:58:41 AM
From: one_less	Read Replies (2) of 82486

"Everything is fine about that sentence except the word, absolute. I really think the problem in this discussion is that word. If you mean ideal or abstraction or my word, touchstone, then say that." I have done so repeatedly. The word absolute connotes something to some of you that has a rub. The rub is not of my making. "The absolute moral teaching is to "be kind to others." I don't buy that example. There are societies that don't teach that. Uday and Qusay weren't taught that, for example." We don't really know what they were taught. But clearly when captives are raped, tortured, and murdered by them, we would not conclude that their behavior is "sensible" or that; if they were taught that it is ok to behave this way, the teaching was sensible and ideally "good." Examples are always going to be situational. Situations are always going to be subject to view point, subjective. I am not arguing that subjective view points are ideal, absolute, touchstones. I am arguing that subjective view points reference the ideal. I thought you and I had agreement on that.

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