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

To: Solon who wrote (25407)	8/25/2007 5:09:05 PM
From: Greg or e	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

"A murderer might judge (if he/she thinks at all he/she makes value judgements) but he/she is not a socially sanctioned arbiter." The problem with your view of what constitutes good and evil is that it can never transcend the internal ethical standards of the Society itself or rise above the level of "value". This reduces all your objections to mere preference. It is no surprise that as an inmate; you wish to run the asylum. It is the last resort of tyrants and evil men to claim a judge has no right to judge them. It failed at Nuremberg and more recently in Baghdad, but let me know how that works out for you. Regarding the mocking and dismissive tone that you have exhibited from day one on SI: Have you read An open letter to Messrs. Dawkins, Dennett, Harris and Hitchens. By Michael Shermer ? sciam.com He falls into the same mistake as you do in committing the fallacy of magically pulling an ought out of an is, but he makes some good points otherwise.