On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 12:17:35AM -0500, Robert Seeberger wrote: > From: "William T Goodall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > So either good and evil are matters of opinion > > For the most part they are not.
What are they if not opinion? Are they absolutes, like the laws of physics? Keep in mind that anyone can test the laws of physics by doing an experiment, and they will get the same results as as anyone else who does the same physics experiment. What is the comparable test for absolute good and evil? > >or most (all) of the people who ever lived were (are) unwittingly > >evildoers. > > Uh....Yes! I think this is a given at least to a moderate degree. > Just about everyone has taken a cookie from the cookie jar. Umm, isn't that what the cookie jar is for? Holding cookies for people to take? That doesn't seem evil to me... > Discussion is in no way a basis for morality. > Discussion dont mean beans. What IS a basis for morality? What "do" mean beans? > But morality does not extend from authority. > Morality extends from sentience. Can you prove that? -- "Erik Reuter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.erikreuter.net/
