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To: freedomson
What if you can be assured of knowing that you could murder and steal and not suffer any consequences?

Irrelevant to the notion of a moral code.

In order to claim a moral imperative to act peacefully in accordance with my own will, I must rationally afford others the same ability.

Else my own moral claim is invalid.

435 posted on 11/11/2003 12:19:43 PM PST by OWK
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To: OWK
In order to claim a moral imperative to act peacefully in accordance with my own will, I must rationally afford others the same ability.

Easy enough for a scholar such as yourself to conclude but what about people of very low intelligence, or dullards and simpletons who possess moral imperatives without any reflection?

439 posted on 11/11/2003 12:26:10 PM PST by freedomson (Baruch haba b'shem Adonai!)
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To: OWK
In order to claim a moral imperative to act peacefully in accordance with my own will, I must rationally afford others the same ability. Else my own moral claim is invalid.

I don't see why you can't rationalize that your well-being trumps the well-being of all others.

440 posted on 11/11/2003 12:29:15 PM PST by AppyPappy (Pittsburgh beat Virginia Tech 31-28. Panthers rule!!".)
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