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

To: Neocon who wrote (62651)	10/15/2002 3:14:45 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Thanks. "...but I do not understand how you can take the position that it is possible to be moral without praise and blame, including those internalized forms of guilt/shame and self- satifaction/pride. Morality points at a foundational principle of right and wrong. Human beings are endowed with the ability and drive to attribute a cause to every effect. Praise adds a value of good to the right, while blame adds a value of bad to the wrong. Since we are often (if not always) to some degree inaccurate in our assessment of causal factors we are also likely to be found as flawed in our determination of praiseworthyness or blameworthyness. The matter is further complicated by the fact that the reciever of praise/blame may actually have had alternative motives in which case the attribution becomes paradoxical for the circumstance. The moral principle itself does not carry a praise or blame factor. The performer in the world may be praised or blamed for his/her distance from the mark in one direction or the other. I am, however, not sure how useful that is.