----- Original Message ----- From: "Warren Ockrassa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 8:32 PM Subject: Re: Br!n: Re: more neocons
> On Apr 19, 2005, at 6:27 PM, Gautam Mukunda wrote: > > > Why? Morality is not the product of an opinion poll. > > Something is either the right thing to do or it is > > not. > > Umm, I can think of a lot of historical precedent that might indicate > otherwise. Ethics (I prefer not to use "morality") is very much an > artifact of culture, society, weltanschauung. To my mind ethics is all > about opinion polls -- the opinion of an entire society, in some cases. So, the Holocaust would have been ethical if Germany had won? Dan M. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
