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To: Know your rights
Are all group moralities merely "rationalizations"?

No, I'm only suggesting rationalization has occured when people admit that they have empathy that matches their group morality but insist that their group morality is not (or can't be) derived from the empathy of individuals in the group.

65 posted on 02/28/2006 9:08:32 AM PST by palmer (Money problems do not come from a lack of money, but from living an excessive, unrealistic lifestyle)
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To: palmer
My ethics of personhood derives from my empathy for newborn babies and my intellectual recognition that there is no defensible criterion of personhood by which newborn babies are persons but unborn babies are not. If that fits your paradigm, then we're in agreement.
69 posted on 02/28/2006 9:38:39 AM PST by Know your rights (The modern enlightened liberal doesn't care what you believe as long as you don't really believe it.)
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