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

To: Greg or e who wrote (24218)	8/23/2001 4:43:37 AM
From: Jorj X Mckie	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 82486

I am not a moral relativist in the slightest. And I am not saying that this is unplanned. Your post doesn't seem to address anything that I have stated, so I really don't want to respond to the points in a way that would indicate that your post represents my views in any way. They don't. Peruse my other posts and see if my views become more clear. I don't think that my desire not to be killed, stolen from, lied to etc....will change in my lifetime. I don't think that this will change in anybody in any timeframe in the future. As long as I don't like being lied to, I will consider lying to be wrong. As long as I don't want to be killed, I will consider killing to be wrong...etc.....do you see how this becomes an absolute? More absolute than many religions which have vacillated on what is right and wrong on some issues. Maybe a supreme being built these values into us, I wouldn't argue against that. But, a value structure based on the concepts that I described are not predicated on "God" and it certainly gives a moral compass to follow that isn't dependent on an ever changing organized religion's interpretation of God's word. Maybe God didn't load the deck by making this world a world of moral landmines, but actually built the values into us at the cellular level so that there would be no confusion. And maybe it is just a naturally occuring phenomenon that happened by chance.....I don't know the answer here, but I still manage to get a pretty solid moral compass out of this approach.