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- From: markp@joplin.wri.com (Mark Pundurs)
- Subject: Re: Ethics, absolute and otherwise
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 17:17:34 GMT
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- In <1993Jan16.173326.13148@rotag.mi.org> kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy) writes:
-
- >In article <markp.726772902@joplin.wri.com> markp@joplin.wri.com (Mark Pundurs) writes:
- >>In <1993Jan10.215310.28728@Princeton.EDU> datepper@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (David Aaron Tepper) writes:
- >>
- >>>In article <markp.726677398@spider.wri.com>, markp@spider.wri.com (Mark
- >>>Pundurs) writes:
- >>
- >>>>In <1l_3zzr@rpi.edu> cookc@aix.rpi.edu (rocker) writes:
- >>
- >>>>>markp@spider.wri.com (Mark Pundurs) writes:
- >>
- >>>>>>In <1993Jan8.164325.8820@advtech.uswest.com> steven@advtech.uswest.com
- >>>( Steve Novak) writes:
- >>
- >>>[deletia]
- >>
- >>>>>>>Sure she can, Mark. At least in the U.S. Where are you from?
- >>
- >>>>>>Fine; make that, "...she may not ethically choose..."
- >>
- >>>>>Sure she can, Mark. At least by my ethics. Which ethics are you
- >>>>>using?
- >>
- >>>>Why do people who don't believe in absolute ethical standards
- >>>>get involved in debates over ethical standards? Isn't it either
- >>>>pointless or self-contradictory?
- >>
- >>>Not at all. There are no absolute ethical standards because no single
- >>>system of ethics can possibly cover all 5 billion+ people in the world.
- >>>Individuals, however, do have personal systems of ethics by which they
- >>>live their lives--by which they _should_ live their lives.
- >>
- >>But why DEBATE them?
-
- >Because humankind thrives on social interaction, and exchanging
- >information and expressing beliefs is a form of social interaction.
-
- >By the same token, I could ask why YOU debate these issues. Surely, if The
- >One Truth is already known to you,
-
- It's not. (I do think I have a better approximation than anything I've
- seen from t.a pro-choicers -- but that's far from having TOT.)
-
- > - Kevin
-
- Mark Pundurs
-