Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Andy Thomas who wrote (48182)	7/26/2000 10:40:42 PM
From: Rarebird	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

< What is it that Sunspot is trying to say?> That is very clear: Message 14103156 "I prefer law-and-order where other people get elected to decide how I should behave." Sunspot chooses not to think for himself. He clearly prefers to have others think for him, choose his morality, while he takes the easy way out. That's his perogative. Sunspot has all the characteristics of a good slave boy: "I will stick to treating others like they prefer, not like I prefer." Morality IMO is not ordained; it is enacted and created by Pure Human Reason. Basic Laws, like, " Thou shall not kill or Thou shall not steal", are moral because they are good for all human beings. Why are they good? Because they inspire respect throughout the human community. Sure, there are exceptions to every law, such as self-defense, in regard to taking another human life. Moreover, feelings can cloud the picture. What I sometimes feel like doing and what I ought to do are sometimes two totally different things. But that is what makes an action moral: the overcoming of one's personal feelings in order to do the right thing that is respected by all rational human beings.