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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: average joe who wrote (15557)	6/13/2003 12:25:48 PM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

"This might help Greg... or maybe not -" It appears to me that he is equating subjective morality with moral nihilism. There is a continual undercurrent of suggestion in his posts that the absence of a totalitarian moral source is synonymous in his mind with the absence or the meaninglessness of individual and social behavioral values. The idea, of course, is ludicrous. One does not begat the other. Naturally, reasonable people do not take the position that just because morality is not dictated by a dictator it does not mean that behaviour is unimportant or that moral codes and conducts do not exist both at the individual and group levels. Morality is not an immutable substance. It is the application of reason applied to the value of life...and to the avoidance of pain and suffering. Back later...