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To: Modernman
You have every right to do evil.

We do? How do you know?

Where do rights come from?

For rights to be unalienable and binding on all of us, they can only come from God. God's essence is goodness. He doesn't will evil, so He cannot uphold a right to do evil.

However, there may also be some consequences from exercising such a right.

Uh, yeah.

In any event, manga is not evil.

How do you know that? It's pornography. It serves no good purpose. It only serves to corrupt morals.

Inanimate objects are neither good nor bad.

That may be true with naturally occurring substances, but that is not true for works of art. This "art" serves only to corrupt morals and has no redeeming value.

(All existing things possess ontological goodness inasmuch as they possess existence. But existence is not part of the essence of any thing, except God.)

118 posted on 07/22/2004 4:46:36 AM PDT by Aquinasfan (Isaiah 22:22, Rev 3:7, Mat 16:19)
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To: Aquinasfan
We do? How do you know?

Through human reason.

Where do rights come from?

In the real world? The barrel of a gun.

For rights to be unalienable and binding on all of us, they can only come from God.

Nonsense. Following your logic, if gods don't exist, we as human beings have no rights.

How do you know that? It's pornography. It serves no good purpose. It only serves to corrupt morals.

It entertains. That's a good enough purpose. If people let their morals be corrupted by a comic book, they really shouldn't be reading it, now should they?

This "art" serves only to corrupt morals and has no redeeming value.

Irrelevant, even if true.

(All existing things possess ontological goodness inasmuch as they possess existence. But existence is not part of the essence of any thing, except God.)

Nonsensical.

119 posted on 07/22/2004 7:03:13 AM PDT by Modernman ("I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members" -Groucho Marx)
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