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

To: Solon who wrote (15899)	6/6/2001 10:11:07 PM
From: Greg or e	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

This is the last time I'm going to post to you, until the next time I post to you, too. "MORAL behavior is what people DECIDE is MORAL behavior." Excuse me if I don't add the bolding to the caps, but I can't help but "get it" now. Pedophilia then, in your view, is not wrong, per say, it's whatever people decide it is. Well, we all know how the Pedophiles will vote. But one thing I don't get, is why would you want to impose your subjective feelings about this on them? Aren't we all entitled to our own morality? Are you setting your views above those of others? If a Pedophile can convince a child to have un-coerced sex is it really any of your business? BTW I am not casting aside objective reasoning. I am merely pointing out that you have removed the Archimedean standpoint, and therefore, reason is a useless tool in your hands. To use a different metaphor. For the last several hundred years, we have been running around like a chicken with his head chopped off. By severing reason and grace, we have severed our lifeline to God. The eyes are blinking, and the beak still moves, but just as surely as the chicken, our society is dead, we just haven't realized it yet. The rise of Pedophilia is just a symptom of that. The enlightenment was a scientific success, but it has been a moral disaster. No response to the evil can be reasonable argument? No response to the compassion as merely emotion argument? I would have expected at least some response since reason and compassion are the two pillars that support your entire argument. But no, just repeat the God is evil, but Pedophiles are not, argument. This must be reasonable because You feel it is? How can one argue against logic like that!