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To: metmom

One test for morality is how the subject handles facts. If the subject routinely mischaracterizes what others have said, says things that they know are not true and/or calls others out for behavior that they them self do then they are not a moral person.

That is one partial test for morality.

As for beauty multiple algorithms exists for determining beauty of the female form, the male form is somewhat more difficult to determine. But both areas are currently being worked on.


366 posted on 04/01/2008 7:33:23 PM PDT by tokenatheist
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To: tokenatheist

Morals cannot be on the whim of men or society. That’s moral relativism. Some cultures, like Islam, say it’s OK to lie to others to advance their cause. To them, advancing islam IS moral.

Beauty is subjective. Those algorithms are based on the western ideal of beauty. Not every culture has the same concept.

Science just cannot deal with some aspects of reality. There are some things that just cannot be measured or reduced to physical components because they have none. And even if it can, it still would miss the essence of what it really is. Tracking the electrical impulses in the brain may show what is happening physically when a thought or emotion occurs, but they are the result of the though or emotion, they aren’t the thought or emotion itself.


391 posted on 04/02/2008 4:35:12 AM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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