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To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (9608)	11/9/2010 5:01:51 PM
From: one_less	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

"I am unable to sharply define "well-being", "regard" and "corruption". A definition of the Mountain is what you requested and what I have given you. A mountain is not a sharp thing. To achieve sharpness you must look at the grains (of sand) which constitute the mountain and which give you specific perspectives on morality. So you may go granular and specify this or that aspect of morality or you may do as ancient sages have done and attempt to view a universality of well-being as one thing, which is a service orientation where all things have rights over you, including your own body, and where you have a responsibility toward all. "But quite soon I found a structural flaw. The idea of quantifiable good is a mirage ... " I agree with you on the basis of quantifiability but the premise of quantifiability is unnecessary. Awareness is necessary and sufficient. Awareness is a self evident aspect of morality. "In my opinion, a convincing moral law would be resistant to erosion by those who are predisposed to oppose it." There is no opposition to moral law. Corruption of moral law is a result of competing interests compelled by personal desires in the midst of complexities of circumstance. Any law may be broken or disregarded according to human will, which does not make it any less of a law. Opposing or eroding a law would be an attempt to make it no longer a law, which is inapplicable in this case.