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- From: steve@crc.ricoh.COM (Stephen R. Savitzky)
- Subject: Re: God and Science: The Ramblings of The Nightstalker
- In-Reply-To: mss2@ellis.uchicago.edu's message of 18 Nov 92 03:28:01 GMT
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- Date: 18 Nov 92 14:03:10
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- "You've just given me yet another example of moral relativism," says
- the Mandelbear. "you said, 'Apparently, the question of whether
- or not they proselytize matters _very_ much to a number of outsiders
- hereabouts. Similarly, outsiders might care about the difference
- between a sect which called for the deaths of heretics and infidels
- and one which preached coexistence.'
-
- "Now some people believe that, for example, proselytizing and calling
- for the death of nonbelievers are *evil* (and in fact are the *same*
- evil, differing mainly in the amount of threat applied to effect a
- conversion). In other words, we're not merely talking about
- *distance* from some absolute morality, but *diametrically opposed*
- positions. This strongly indicates that, at least on some matters,
- there is no observable absolute morality. (You'll note that I say
- *observable* -- there may be one, or several, but there's no objective
- way to identify one.)"
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