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

To: The Philosopher who wrote (5737)	2/13/2001 11:15:10 PM
From: Dayuhan	Respond to of 82486

The basic question was whether humans share any absolute moral imperatives, or whether all ethics are situational Do they have to be one or the other? I would say there's a fair bit of ground in between. One of the things I find objectionable in the proponents of absolute morality is their tendency to announce that if there is no absolute morality, than there is no morality at all. It is from this school that we get comments like "if there is no God, all is permitted". They don't seem to consider the possibility that we can decide what we wish to permit. In actual fact, we can and do decide what to permit, and while these decisions are not absolute, or related to any absolute, they need not be entirely situational either, unless we choose to make them that way.