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To: Palisades
Discovery of the proper moral rules in a society is a process based on trial and error.

Only to a relativist. You keep moving the goal post. You said in your last post that "History has shown that the moral rules embodied in the Communist Manifesto are disastrous for a society."

Evidently morality does not flow from society by your own admission.

You've implied by your theory on society and morality previously, and correct me if I'm wrong, that morality is collectivist. It isn't as evidenced by Marxism, Nazism, Maoism et al.

Moral absolutes exist. I'll prove it to you if you'd like.

662 posted on 11/08/2005 2:44:33 PM PST by jwalsh07
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To: jwalsh07
You said in your last post that "History has shown that the moral rules embodied in the Communist Manifesto are disastrous for a society."

Sure

Evidently morality does not flow from society by your own admission.

Sure it does. That doesn't mean, however, that such morality always leads to a properly functioning society.

You've implied by your theory on society and morality previously, and correct me if I'm wrong, that morality is collectivist.

Yes. That is my position.

Moral absolutes exist. I'll prove it to you if you'd like.

There are certain moral rules that have been shown, through trial and error, to be necessary for the proper functioning of a society. You can call them "moral absolutes," if you'd like.

663 posted on 11/08/2005 2:52:44 PM PST by Palisades (Cthulhu in 2008! Why settle for the lesser evil?)
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To: jwalsh07
Moral absolutes exist. I'll prove it to you if you'd like.

I would love to see a proof of this that doesn't fall to logical fallacies.
677 posted on 11/08/2005 4:39:07 PM PST by Dimensio (http://angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif <-- required reading before you use your next apostrophe!)
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