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.

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

To: Solon who wrote (17623)	6/7/2004 4:47:51 PM
From: Greg or e	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

"The fact that the most powerful have ultimate say does not indicate on what ethical basis any particular culture or tribe sets standards of behavior." Sure it does. If there is no objective standards to draw upon then possession becomes the whole Law instead of just nine tenths. That is why "might is right" is the logical conclusion for the Atheist who is honest enough to understand that inalienable rights are only inalienable if God exists. "If there is a discernible basis for the standards of the community, then it is not arbitrary." Of course if community standards are the ONLY basis for setting community standards; then they are "Based on or subject to individual judgment or preference:" and "Not limited by law" which are both definitions of the word "arbitrary" "Do you think they were "good"! When they murdered..." Obviously if murder is objectively wrong then I do not think it is good to do wrong. I'll leave that position to you. "But only an idiot would suggest that most of the killers from clan and country were anything but sincere in their belief that they were doing the good." I'm glad you did not sully the memories of the men who died on the beaches of Normandy by posting such crap on the 60th anniversary of D-Day. They died fighting exactly the type of ideology that you are espousing. "Only an idiot would suggest" that the Nazis and the Allies were moral equals but that is what your metaphor implies. "Only an idiot would suggest" that the Nazi guards who herded the Jews into the gas chambers "were anything but sincere in their belief that they were doing the good." Evil is a reality that you can't handle, because in your philosophical system it does not exist. Go tour a camp and tell me that again. "only the premise that one of the two actors is always being intentionally insincere and immoral may rescue your hypotheses--which makes it look very very stupid now, doesn't it, Greg?!" It sure makes someone look stupid but it's not me! <<<The rest of your post deteriorates rapidly from there (if that were possible) into a foul mouth and bigoted drool">>> "I will repeat the "bigoted" drool for you:" LIAR! You did not repeat it, you substituted a previous point in the post which I have already shown to be fallacious several times over.