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

To: Solon who wrote (27213)	9/21/2009 12:08:16 PM
From: Greg or e	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

<<I have never seen anyone express moral outrage at someone else who picked Chocolate over vanilla>> "You don't need to use the word "moral". It is just confusing you and preventing you from understanding." The use of the word moral is completely appropriate when someone is using highly charged emotion and moral outrage as the basis of their arguments. You seem to "feel" very strongly that vanilla is THE WAY. "I would certainly be more than outraged if someone I loved chose arsenic over chocolate. I would be devastated. Please note: I would not be "morally" devastated. I would simply be devastated. Does this help, at all." No: it does not. I'm not sure where you are even getting that example from since the majority of your moral outrage is directed at people to whom you have no direct or personal connection and who; (far from loving them) you morally condemn, for their choices. It's hard to claim rationality as the basis for your position when you so seldom employ it, opting instead for an appeal to emotion, and outrage about things you "SAY" you don't believe (like transcendent ethical norms). It's only when pressed that you "say" that "there are no OUGHTS" but your actions speak louder than your words. Trying to suppress your God given moral conscience while claiming that a God given moral conscience does not exist must get very tiring after a while: does it not? Again: People don't jump up and down and call other people names because they like a different flavor of ice cream. There's obviously more going on here than expressing "personal opinion".