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To: Neocon who wrote (134609)	5/27/2004 8:47:53 PM
From: Jacob Snyder	Read Replies (1) of 281500

<The idea that a "useful morality" will have no loopholes is laughable.> I didn't say that all rules shouldn't have any allowable loopholes or flexibility. Most should. In fact, there are very very few absolutes I Believe (capital B) in. Thou Shalt Not Kill is one of them. It has to be an absolute, a simple rigid Rule, because otherwise, clever people like you will find innumerable exceptions to the Rule. You are such a clever monkey, and so am I, with our swollen frontal lobes servicing the needs of our reptilian midbrain. In your example, you posed the question of whether rage at people who have done vast evil, makes murder OK. My answer is: Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you. - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom. - Stephen Vincent Benet (1898 -1943)

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