Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Pastimes : The Boxing Ring Revived -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: one_less who wrote (3435)	12/17/2002 1:21:24 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7720

People can be capable of moral reasoning, but when positions are taken that compromise a serious moral stand as a matter of convenience, it puts into question whether they are capable of moral reasoning on serious issues. I am sure that convenience motivates some people in this area and others, I just don't think that all the people on the other side of the issue are compromising moral stands as a matter of convenience. I would rather say that their inital moral stand is something I see as wrong, or that they are over prioritizing one moral principle at the expense of another that I think is more important in this situation. Tim

To: one_less who wrote (3435)	12/17/2002 4:50:03 PM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 7720

If I take an elementary problem in algebra, and a person, given time and some hints (comparable to a discussion here) cannot solve it, I conclude that that the person is not generally prepared to solve more difficult algebraic equations. If I discover that a person does not know the capitals of Spain, Portugal, and Denmark, I expect they will not know truly obscure capitals, except by accident. Thus, I would bet that they could not name the capitals of Slovakia, the Sudan, and Mongolia, all three, without looking them up. These are the sort of things I mean in making the judgment about capability to engage in serious moral reasoning: if the easy stuff is beyond them, how can they tackle the hard stuff?........

To: one_less who wrote (3435)	12/17/2002 7:11:05 PM
From: Ish	Respond to of 7720

<<He knows that I have a personal policy to tell the truth, even when it means I will have to deal with some difficulty. >> Lies have a tendency to build up into a real problem in the end. The other day I read an article about President Bush written by someone that wasn't for him but he did state that President Bush can't tell a lie. Now he may say something that isn't the truth but he believes it's true at the time. I lied back in '81. A neighbor moved and the well loved kitty got lost. I saw a car turn it into crow food at the corner of Arcadia and Morningside but when asked I said it had been picked up as a stray buy a family.