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To: Greg or e who wrote (12275)	1/6/2011 9:02:49 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 69300

I don't think objective good and evil exist in a useful or meaningful way. I consider them human inventions and thus subjective. There is a spectrum across culture and history of whether a thing is considered good or evil or how much of each. John Stuart Mill attempted to build a practical philosophy from the ground up based on max. mitigation of evil. I don't consider his attempt successful. Individual good has been a moving target in my awareness as I keep learning some things and forgetting others. A society's barycenters of moral consciousness similarly evolve. Even in the constellation of Protestant denominations, which share both the foundation and framework of a common moral structure, there are intense dialogs, sometimes leading to schism, over the metaphoric plumbing. While this does not prove the absence of objective moral forms, it suggests to me that the ones used by people, including committed members of (insert favorite church here), have an irreducible subjective component.