On 10/2/07, Mark Waser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wrong. There *are* some absolute answers. There are some obvious universal > "Thou shalt not"s that are necessary unless you're rabidly anti-community > (which is not conducive to anyone's survival -- and if you want to argue > that community survival isn't absolute, then I'll just cheerfully ignore > you).
I see "community", or rather cooperation, as essential to morality. (Quite ironic that you would write someone off for disagreement over the value of community!) As for moral absolutes, they fail due the non-existence of an absolute context. As for moral universals, humans can get pretty close to universal agreement on some key principles, but this is true only to the extent that we share common values-assessment function based on shared cultural, genetic, physical... heritage.) So not quite universal now, and bound to broaden. Do you really think you can show an example of a true moral universal? - Jef ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=49017951-47277b
