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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: E who wrote (4365)	2/2/2001 12:08:24 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

What religion says it's wrong "in an absolute sense" to kill? The Christian commandment on that subject says, in the Hebrew, "murder," though it was mistranslated as "kill", as I understand it. There is probably shades of meaning in the Hebrew word that perhaps neither kill or murder in English completely cover. I'm not a Hebrew scholar. If there is any here please feel free to jump in. I think I will not longer use the term "absolute morality", or "absolute moral ideas" nearly as much any more. In the course of discussion here a better term has poped up "extrinsic", which in this context would cover moral ideas that have a truth or falsity outside of people's opinions about them. I do recognize that many people here believe that morality or moral ideas do not have any extrinsic existence. I also recognize that even if they do have an extrinsic existence they don't have a tangible physical existence that one can point to prove one side of a argument. Tim