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You are the one hung up on the soul thing. I have told you that whether there's a soul or not is immaterial to my thoughts on the matter. What's your problem with that? Can you not accept the possibility that the arguments you disagree with are not based on your preferred straw-man?

I know you're just looking to be told that whatever it is you've chosen is ok. Check out my first post on the thread where I said you can choose to live with principles or rationalizations. I guess you've chosen the latter.

I'm sorry not to have understood your position. I thought that you viewed the destruction of a blastosphere as immoral because it contains a soul. You are not correct that I am "looking to be told that whatever it is [I've] chosen is ok." I've not made any choice at all on the matter. I am trying to understand YOUR position to help inform my own opinion.

So far all I have gleaned from your postings are that you don't think whether a blastosphere has or has not a soul is relevant to whether it is moral or not to destroy it. What I don't understand is how you have come to beliee that it IS immoral to destroy a blastosphere. What line of reasoning informs your view on the matter?

I have tried to be polite in my postings to you, and I hope you will show me the same courtesy.

jas3