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To: Tom Byron who wrote (1963)	11/1/1998 6:00:00 PM
From: marcos	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81101

May the circle be unbroken And gold go, Lord, to the sky. There's a better PoG awaitin' And there's pie, Tom, in the sky. Most of us are holding golds higher than we druther, but for me; Non, rien de rien Non, je ne regrette rien Ni le bien Qu'on m'a fait Ni le mal Tout ca m'est bien egal Non, rien de rien No, je ne regrette rien C'est payé, balayé, oublié Je me fous de passe. It's Day of the Dead here, and we're eating tamál ... not a bad life, really.

To: Tom Byron who wrote (1963)	11/1/1998 6:26:00 PM
From: sea_urchin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81101

Tom : Re "Could not all opinions be encompassed" Moralistic Conservatives and liberals alike seem to be consumed by a need to establish a baseline of morals, ethics and/or virtue in the hopes that society will become better or at least more civil. There are numerous articles and political debates questioning why we have lost our way, why we have become self-absorbed, greedy, uncaring, and basically lacking in morals. Morals are perceived of as a set of values that a society must have to survive, and it seems the pundits have some means of measuring it over time, and as they would have it, we live in a most unethical period in history. This is stated without first defining what means of measurement is used. We no longer practice slavery, infanticide, drawing-and-quartering heretics, etc.! Are we less moral now because we have given up these practices? Or more? That is, indeed, the question?