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

To: Solon who wrote (20402)	6/15/2005 3:30:45 PM
From: Oeconomicus	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

"I suppose you are aware that that "mutual commitment" could be inculcated to exclude dead bodies? The commitment to dead bodies is NOT necessary to express brotherhood or morale." Perhaps, but I wasn't opining on what is best, rather what simply IS and that it has nothing to do with religion. And as I'm sure you are aware, much of what IS came to be because those concerned determined it to be in their self-interest. If soldiers and Marines consider it to be in their self-interest to continue this "no one left behind" code, however foolish you think them for so concluding, who are you to decide that it is not? "It is obvious to me that "authority" has always used the lives of others for their own ends." Now you're changing the subject. I agree. In fact, it is fairly recent in the history of mankind that the lives of anyone but that authority (i.e. the king or equivalent) were considered to be anything but just another input to be used or consumed in furthering the interests of that authority. The notion of individual liberty, including "property rights" over one's own body, came to the fore beginning in the Enlightenment, I believe.