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

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (70823)	7/21/2003 12:36:16 PM
From: one_less	Respond to of 82486

I have defined moral absolute several times and I have given a taxonomy or moral application in which I have shown agreement with the roll that subjective opinion plays in the richly enmeshed application and interpretation of moral principle. Maybe you missed it. I will try again. A moral absolute is an ideal that can be used as a referent to interpret our experience. “Be just,” “be charitable,” “be kind” are so clearly ideal forms of “good” that they are synonymous with the term “be good.” “Having Malfeasance,” “be unjust,” are so clearly ideal forms of “bad” that they are synonymous with “being bad.” Our experiences of the moment are richly enmeshed with ideal forms and our view points of experience. Abe gave money to a needy person. Was it an act of charity (good will). One opinion is that Abe is a corrupt politician. He gave the money in a vary visible way to make a political gain over his opponent; whereas, he actually makes his money by being a cruel slum lord and taking advantage of the needy. Another opinion is that the money was a bribe. Another opinion is that it was actually an act of self-sacrifice and good will. There are as many opinions as there are view points of people who are involved at any level. However, even if it was an act of good will the receiver may have bought a gun to shoot and rob Abe of the rest of his money. The question of whether or not Abe was charitable is unanswerable, except if we are talking about a scripted story or movie where the author is the all-knowing entity. In real life experience Abe may not even be one hundred percent confident of his charitableness. It may be a problem for us to know absolutely if Abe was charitable. It is not a problem for us to know what charity is. We are only able to have opinions about Abe’s behavior because we do all have a common reference of charity (good will). I have been over this a couple of dozen times during the past couple of weeks. The response I keep getting, is that Y’all accuse me of thinking I know absolutely or that there is an absolute way to know if conduct (such as Abe’s) is moral.