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To: Junior
You see, this is where you and I differ. I believe worth to be subjective, not objective. The worth of an object, person, animal, whatnot, is solely dependent upon how much it is valued by another.

What's this - value relativism? (lol) If worth is subjective, then it's worthless. Marquis de Sade said it best, "What is, is right." (And we all know what this guy did, don't we?) That means, if all is subjective, then everyone and everything is right! Therefore, cruelty and non-cruelty are EQUAL. If worth is subjective then it's all in your feeble little atom-smashing brain - which, by the way, is also the result of random impersonal material processes. You also should write a letter to the U.N. - they believe in this thing called universal human rights - you should set them straight (you and Stalin)!

3,372 posted on 01/07/2003 7:16:06 AM PST by exmarine
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To: exmarine
Worth is whatever you assign it. Gold is intrinsically worthless; it is only man's desire for it that gives it value.
3,374 posted on 01/07/2003 7:26:26 AM PST by Junior
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