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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: lorrie coey who wrote (62272)	11/11/1999 1:39:00 PM
From: Johannes Pilch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

Though in considering human life some are wont to speak of "love", the "beauties of the cosmos", "the rhythms of nature" and other such rot, when one cuts to its bare essentials one sees it is an animal's existence, where meaning ultimately consists of living, reproducing and dying. This is the bleeding reality of the matter, and so one should not expect others, particularly those of other times, to consider oppression an evil thing. To judge a matter evil is possible only on the basis of one's individual perceptions, and whether any of these are common to all, across all times, is yet unproven. So we are effectively creatures of convention, and as such have no binding logic to which we might ultimately appeal as we lobby against culture. This is why to you abortion is acceptable, while at one and the same time it is to others oppression of the most barbarous sort. Without an incontrovertible common moral viewpoint, our judging the past via the conventions of the present is but to mix apples with oranges. To put the matter succinctly, all is vanity, including our longings and sorrow. Our bitter judgments are futile, since we have no authority to give them meaning. It is perhaps best simply to forgive those who oppress us, this, to enable ourselves to allocate as much of our energy as practicable to the truly meaningful business of living, reproducing and dying. All else, we leave to a loving and just God.