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Politics : Evolution
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To: one_less who wrote (7965)6/29/2010 10:15:48 PM
From: Solon1 Recommendation  Read Replies (1) of 69300
 
"But in a court room there is usually one issue being marked as good or bad and everyone agrees to the foundation of goodness or badness under review. The badness of a heinous crime is universally agreed upon based on some principle of goodness or badness."

In Muslim Courts murderers are being set free all the time (or being honored)...because they only murdered "bad" women who made noise with their shoes while walking--(and therefore the killers did the good, moral, and conscientious thing--praise Allah.

In other places hands, arms, or heads are being lopped off over perceived infractions of some sort.

If there is one thing obvious it is the fact that the world and her people have fought for thousands of years over value judgments based on opinion (such opinion rarely being rationally based--but that is another issue).

"Do we conclude there was no right or wrong act or only that we were not able to determine what it was in this particular circumstance?"

We conclude with what evidence may properly inform our opinion: In a particular culture or community there will be and is a commonality of values which allows communities to create rules and regulations and penalties pursuant to the breaking thereof. Every country, every community, every family--indeed every person--has a moral spectrum based on myriad variables that I may perhaps be persuaded to go into but which ought to be obvious to most people. Simple communities are like the greyscale of ancient cultures where we have 16 colors. More civilized communities have a more confounding palette of 240 and then 256 and then finally several million distinctions of moral hue to differentiate between. The primary colors are unmixed and represent the extreme "moral" positions that most people are in accord with most of the time: (Don't kill somebody unless your God commands you to. Don't boil a kid in its mothers milk. Don't let somebody with a hernia or prostate swelling into a church. Don't suffer a witch to live. Don't let anyone gather sticks on a Saturday without stoning him/her to death)--Things that all tribes and cultures can agree on as being sound.

Things that resonate in the conscience. Things that nag at you to to correct in the name of what is Good and Holy...being always mindful of eternal consequences should you fail in your conscientious and vigilant duty.

When the ENTIRE tribe sets free some murderer who has taken the life of an innocent woman? When the ENTIRE tribe has stoned to death an old man for gathering sticks to keep warm? When an ENTIRE tribe has butchered men women and children repeatedly in good conscience in the name of their God? Who then is the holder of conscience which nags for the sake of others? Who says to himself, "so what??"

I guess it is me. But only because I have a brain and a heart and sensibilities--and I prefer such tools over gratuitous, superstitious, and self serving prejudice and partiality.
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