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Politics : Should God be replaced?

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To: Greg or e who wrote (27200)	9/17/2009 7:44:40 PM
From: Solon	Read Replies (2) of 28931

"then there is at the very least an implicit "ought" that is being put forward" My utterances are merely personal opinions. My condemnations or my praises reflect personal standards using reason as the methodology and reality as the final arbiter. I recognize that every event is both good and bad relative to subjective impact. When I oppose a belief, statement, or action it is NOT to suggest that any personal opinion makes the holder unworthy (immoral)--but rather that they are irrational or unwise. I think people should value the gift of life and therefore honor their intellect and value reason. But that "ought" is abstract principle. I recognize the right of NO-ONE to dictate to another what values they "ought" to hold--and especially do I not recognize any duty to any supernatural power nor to human powers. People can value what they will and how they will. Rational choices will produce certain consequences. Faking reality will produce certain consequences. Everything thought or done will be threshed and harvested by the cutting fingers of reality. It was said by a poet who escapes me for the moment that the wheels of the gods grind slowly but they grind exceedingly fine. Well, I don't know about the gods--but reality is like that... "when you claim there is no standards and then turn around in the next breath and hold someone to your standard by condemning them, for instance, for their lack of moral character, then you are being inconsistent." I've explained why you are mistaken. I claim there are no Absolute Standards (the kind that posit the existence of an immutable moral being). I did not claim that I haven't any standards that I can speak to. When I condemn or praise it is MY standards I am evincing and I Intend those standards and values to be rationally defensible and worth persuading others toward...

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