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To: one_less who wrote (71021)	6/6/2008 8:40:54 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542957

Action is based on circumstance While I would agree with you to some degree, this is not really true for a legal system. You are talking about a situational morality, and we can't allow our system to deteriorate too far into that. We have to start with fairly strong general guidance. (thou shalt not kill). We have managed to add degrees to that legally-- self-defense, premeditated, etc. And our system evolves constantly, and with plenty of resistance. I am not much of a philosopher and know little about the law, but I find that I come back to a lot of the JudeoChristian ethics when confronted with difficult choices personally. Still I hesitate to impose those on others. While protecting a child is probably paramount to most of us, I am not sure I would try to legislate that in detail. Sometimes we have to make difficult decisions regardless of law. That was a rather convoluted sentence about recruiting a child into war and whether it warranted justifiable force. There is an old moral problem-- where the priest of a village is asked if he would sacrifice his daughter to save the village. And he says, no. You can't begin to rationalize the death of one to save others. That leads to the Greater Good dilemma. I think we went too far down that path these last 5 years.