On Aug 25, 2004, at 4:30 PM, Dan Minette wrote:
I don't make moral choices either, just ethical ones, and both good and
evil are human-defined terms that refer to things which do not
objectively exist.
So, an ethics in which it is immoral to allow a Jew to exist is just as valid as one in which genocide is wrong?
I'm not sure how you arrived at that finding; would you care to trace your path of reasoning to that conclusion? Certainly you could not have derived it from anything I've said on either the topics of Jewish people or of genocide. (Or are you just jumping past several stages of net debate deterioration and laying the groundwork early for declaring me a Nazi bastard? ;)
You don't believe in human rights, I take it.
I think it's a lovely idea but it doesn't actually exist outside of the ethical systems that construct it. Put another way I do believe in it, because I have to -- it doesn't exist unless I believe it does.
As an example, if you're in the middle of Faulkner's markless trackless unaxed wild and a puma finds and eats you, whither your human right to life?
How about free will? Responsibility? Reflective self-awareness?
How about them? I'm not sure why or how these things must have ideas such as "morality" (or "good" or "evil") to exist, which is what you seem to be implying.
-- WthmO
More fun than a bucket of live bait. But not as much fun as a trailerful of raccoons. --
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