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To: Diamond
If I may add, an unwillingness to to condem the plundering, forced labor and extermination of Jewish people in NAZI Germany, while remaining consistent with the premise, reveals more of a severe dysfuntion of moral cognition than anything true and objective about morality itself.

Of course, I find it wrong. I condemn it. Did I say that I did not?

507 posted on 05/21/2002 12:28:05 PM PDT by JediGirl
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To: JediGirl
Of course, I find it wrong. I condemn it.

I'm glad you do, but in so doing you cannot remain consistent with your definition that whatever society says is right. If there is no moral law above society, no external standard, then that society cannot be judged. To remain consistent in your view of morality you, an outsider, should remain silent in the face of the mass slaughter of Jewish people. It is your own view of morality that dictates that you are wrong as an outsider for opposing the holocaust. Your view also dictates that Germans who resisted were morally wrong, because they had a moral obligation to obey their present society's standard.

Cordially

515 posted on 05/21/2002 12:56:47 PM PDT by Diamond
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To: JediGirl
Of course, I find it wrong. I condemn it. Did I say that I did not?

On what basis? Who are you to argue about the moral decisions of another society, if that's what they decide they needed to do?

518 posted on 05/21/2002 1:04:11 PM PDT by r9etb
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