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To: Neocon who wrote (6921)	10/24/2003 11:34:20 AM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7720

That makes sense (once I looked up deontological). The situation could be one where the moral rule itself causes the congruence (which would be closer to Plato's forms) where the form of the moral rule itself has at least a quasi divine status even if it is not a personal god, or one where a divine being causes the congruence by how he creates people, or if the standard wasn't external to the creator you could get congruence by how the creator creates the rule. You could also have congruence by random chance or a situation but that is less satisfying. Or you could have a situation where the eternal and external moral rule doesn't fit in with human nature but that doesn't seem to be a just situation nor one where humans would recognize the moral rule unless it was imposed on them. I can imagine such a situation but it doesn't seem to make sense. All of this of course assumes some rule that is external to human nature (even if it has congruence with it). Dropping that assumption you could have a natural law based on only human nature, or one could assert that morality was entirely a human cultural or personal construct but those ideas lead us astray from the area we where examining. Tim