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

To: Solon who wrote (28264)	3/11/2010 10:30:56 AM
From: LLCF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

If there are any more "Touche!!s" there will be nothing but a bloody pulp to wash off the floor with a hose. -gggg- DAK

To: Solon who wrote (28264)	3/11/2010 10:49:22 AM
From: Greg or e	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

"I will make the statement: Thus, we see her (Rand's) most ardent followers displaying love, tolerance, affection, compassion, and other attributes of goodness and strength. Do you now say: Praising and calling someone as goodness (as you have done) because they do not conform to your (hypothetical) arbitrarily derived moral construct is to use force???" You think that's a valid analogy and you are laughing at me???? It obviously needs a little work. :) At any rate: Both cases demand an objective (and ultimately a transcendent) standard if they are to have any objective meaning at all. That is the question this issue revolves around and the very thing that both you and Rand have failed to accomplish with your subjective obvectivism. As to verbal attacks being considered a form of abuse and yes, force: abusers always deny they are being abusive. You are so used to doing it that you don't even recognize it. Sometimes they use physical force and sometimes they use accusatory, insulting or derogatory words to beat their victims down. Moral praise on the other hand; also rests on an objective standard, and has the ability to LIFT and inspire individuals. Of course true moral praise, if it is to be anything other than emotive and subjective, involves the recognition that one DOES conform to a transcendent and objective moral standard.