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To: Protagoras

"I do not seek your forgiveness. And since there is no right or wrong, why would it matter if I was courteous? Or even if I killed someone, as long as I didn't get caught? I mean, it's not really right or wrong."




Ah, more sophistry from the shadow of Protagoras. There is no right or wrong position...only the rhetoric. Very good. Even though Protagoras left little in writing, you are more than making up for the loss of his words through history.

It's all relative to you Sophists, is it not. Murder is only a crime if you are caught and apprehended by the society which defines it as a crime.

I know of no atheists who have that opinion. Most of us are not sophists at all. But, oh shadow of the real Protagoras, you are not quite up to the task of espousing pure relativism. Perhaps you will continue to grow in your philosophy, and make the shade proud of its shadow. Time will tell.


1,799 posted on 12/21/2005 8:59:01 AM PST by MineralMan (godless atheist)
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To: MineralMan
Murder is only a crime if you are caught and apprehended by the society which defines it as a crime.

I never claimed it wasn't a crime. I said that in your philosophy, it is morally neutral, since there is no morality. It just is, it's not right or wrong. In the end, it doesn't matter because nothing matters.

1,804 posted on 12/21/2005 9:03:53 AM PST by Protagoras (Many people teach their children that Jesus is story character but Santa Claus is real.)
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