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To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (868)	9/20/1999 12:25:00 AM
From: Tunica Albuginea	Respond to of 69300

LRR:" there still is good vs. bad behavior - for the individual, the family, the nation, the species.". how do you define good or bad the broad strokes cross all national, historic and religious boundaries. "Don't murder. Don't steal. Be a person of your word. That is not what happened in World War 1 &2 , in Communist China, Russia, Vietnam, etc. etc. If you feed your distressed neighbor today, he's more likely to feed you next year should you need it." Are you talking about men or animals, lol. Can you give me some examples? Are the trade barriers that nations have against a form of thanks for us bailing them out over and over? Have you ;listened to Pat Buchanan lately? back tomorrow, TA Message #868 from Lather.Rinse.Repeat. at Sep 19 1999 10:11PM If we agree upon the concept that absent a God everything is theoretically permitted (and to me this is identical to the position that all human morality is anthropogenic), and we further allow for the sake of argument that there is no compelling evidence of a present God - then the idea that Nazi Germany or Imperial Germany or Stalinist Russia or post-revolutionary USA were equally viable from a moral sense does not follow. Because even if all orality is anthropogenic, there still is good vs. bad behavior - for the individual, the family, the nation, the species. While we might argue about the niceties of moral behavior, the broad strokes cross all national, historic and religious boundaries. "Don't murder. Don't steal. Be a person of your word. Eat? Work! Honor your elders and protect your children. Love your neighbors and be ruthless to your enemies. If you feed your distressed neighbor today, he's more likely to feed you next year should you need it." Certainly there were excursions from this broad template. The most dazzling recent example is Rwanda. Did God step in in the smallest? I don't see it. Was this bad behavior? Five billion voices cry YES>. Should the senior nations have intervened? Well <chuckling> that is a question for the Liberal thread.