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

To: Solon who wrote (16155)	6/8/2001 12:01:56 PM
From: Greg or e	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Oh, Greg. How can I make this as clear to you as the clay sloughing out between your fingers? Let me try. Logical consistency might help. In your first paragraph You said; "the fundamental first premise of moral consideration is the shared desire of people to avoid pain. "Don't hurt me" While I disagree with that, if that's your starting point from an anthropocentric viewpoint, fine. The problem that I'm having is the leap in logic from that, to the first consideration being; "Will this action have consequences that are hurtful to another?" That is as clear as mud. Aren't you smuggling, an appeal to the golden rule, into a world that you claim, has no rules?