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To: one_less who wrote (71016)	6/6/2008 7:13:07 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (1) of 542960

I dislike the terms "right-wrong". It gets too confused with religion and subjective moral measurements. I prefer your description of conduct based on agreement of what's best for society while protecting as many individual rights as possible. That can place individuals at odds with law, of course, as abortion does. But it doesn't begin and end with absolutes. What might be considered "absolutes" have evolved over many years and through many societies as the most practical of survival guides. (thou shalt not kill.) This is why I value our system over all others, and what keeps me from becoming too liberal- or too conservative. We allow a great deal of latitude for individual expression, as much as possible without violating those necessary "absolutes" for a healthy safe society. I view too much liberalism as cutting into individual choice, and conservatism as controlling behavior in a more subjective moral sense than it should (as in abortion or gay rights). But once you get into "moral" law, it gets pretty wobbly- we don't all agree on what constitutes a moral action. That's probably why we see "mitigating circumstances" appearing in our courts.

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