On Tue, March 27, 2007 11:34 pm, Christian Seberino wrote: > > On Tue, March 27, 2007 3:42 pm, Lan Barnes wrote: > >> See, this is the thing that deeply religious people fail to understand. >> That there is a rational basis for morality, ethics, and law. It doesn't >> have to come from divine direction. >> >> Rape, slavery and child abuse are all inherently violence by one person >> against another. This is not a matter of personal "belief." It is >> readily >> apparent. > > So if I understand you correctly, you are changing your position from > believing one should never impose their views on others to the new > viewpoint that this is ok for you think your views are rational? > > Chris
I am saying that there is a rational basis for good law, not a faith-based structure. I don't need any holy men to tell me that it's a good and moral idea to impose my views of rape on rapists. And I see an easily defined difference between forbidding rape and imposing my views of prayer on prayers or non-prayers. -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
