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To: Matchett-PI
"A totalitarian government only embraces principles that serve their purposes in controlling and subjugating the masses."

Totalitarian governments need rules of conduct which include moral absolutes just as a free society does. A totalitarian society can no more tolerate stealing, killing, or any other kind of aberrant behavior than can a free society. Less so in fact. This is in addition to methods of control and subjugation used by them.

As for the list of declarationist principles, thanks for them, many or most of them are in keeping with my own beliefs, though they are not, IMO, supportive of your argument that totalitarian government does not require moral absolutes.

122 posted on 11/11/2004 8:45:12 PM PST by Sam Cree (Democrats are herd animals)
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To: Sam Cree
"they are not, IMO, supportive of your argument that totalitarian government does not require moral absolutes."

The "moral absolutes" of relativists are temporary. They're only "required" until the situation changes. Hahaha

123 posted on 11/11/2004 9:24:19 PM PST by Matchett-PI (All DemocRATS are either religious moral relativists, libertines or anarchists.)
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