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To: Greg or e who wrote (14035)	3/6/2011 11:19:42 PM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

"I thought giving you the last word was going to finally shut you up" Maybe try growing up and playing adult games, ok? This is a bulletin board to share opinions and thoughts. Not a private playground for infantile games. "The circumstantially descriptive terms, "helpful" and "hurtful", are not the same thing as actions that are morally "intrinsically good" or "intrinsically evil"." You're responding to somebody else's post--not mine. I made it clear that helpful and hurtful are relative to circumstance and person. "I agree that pronouncing the actions of others "intrinsically evil" when you claim that nothing is "intrinsically evil" is indeed "stupid", yet both you and Loftus continue to do it anyway" Again, I don't know what post you are responding to. I made no such reference and I have gone back to your post and your link and put "intrinsically" into the "find" box and nothing remotely resembling your accusation comes up--not even in the comments. Yet you put it in quotes as though either I or Mr. Loftus had made such claims? Hmmmm... Suggestion: start responding to actual posts and start doing so with some honesty and sincerity. Any fool can blabber and blubber. You are well aware that I never refer to evil in Absolute terms but rather see it as hurtful behaviour towards one or more people. Generally speaking, because of the nature of reality and of our commonality of existence--people share similar opinions as to what is hurtful and what is not. That is why it is possible for rational people to resolutely condemn the supposed actions of the biblical god myth. Indeed, most creation mythologies involve considerable immorality, indecency, and primitive treatment. This is not surprising as they spring from a pre-scientific and superstitious framework where "civilized" was not too removed from the interactions of dumb animals.