On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 20:31:29 -0500, Dan Minette wrote

> But, if that template is reasonable, then we can use all of our 
> skills to answer that question.  

We don't have to confuse utilitarian arguments with moral ones.

> I know some folks who believe that morality is a matter of feeling empathy.
> You waxed long and poetically in your post about how you felt the 
> pain of people dying.

That was about the cost of war, utilitarian, not moral.

> Do you think having such feelings is what 
> morality is about....that only those people who feel a emotion at a 
> certain time are acting morally?

No.

Nick
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