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

To: one_less who wrote (71016)	7/28/2003 11:47:24 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

I bailed for a while when everyone became testy. This is an attempt to be helpful, so please accept it in that spirit. I have argued that an ideal is an abstract idea that represents an absolute....until...it is viewed in a particular situation. Everything is fine about that sentence except the word, absolute. I really think the problem in this discussion is that word. If you mean ideal or abstraction or my word, touchstone, then say that. I'd bet everyone could deal with those notions. Throughout all your posts, you still haven't been able to show how there is a moral principle that is absolute. The absolute moral teaching is to "be kind to others." I don't buy that example. There are societies that don't teach that. Uday and Qusay weren't taught that, for example. There are plenty of subcultures in the US that aren't taught that. You keep giving examples, but I haven't seen one that represents the notion of absolute.