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To: donh
I have, in fact, provided a moral standard--the good of the moral community.

which community? Your standard is far from universal. HOw do you decide which community is right? How do you settle disputes between communities? War? Might makes right.

1,139 posted on 04/30/2003 12:56:32 PM PDT by exmarine
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To: exmarine
which community?

As I have gone over before--the moral community you choose to be loyal to. Some such choices are smart, some are not, reason must be employed to choose the best one, and this process can fail, which is why it requires continuous effort in reasoning, just as is the case for the common law.

Your standard is far from universal.

Rather my point, isn't it?

HOw do you decide which community is right?

By reasoning, and examining your feelings about what's fundamentally important to you and yours.

How do you settle disputes between communities? War?

If necessary. Do you think it was immoral to invade Afganistan?

Might makes right.

Might makes for survival of you and yours, and, coincidently, your moral precepts. God didn't cavil at it regarding the Mideanites or the Canaanites, what's your problem? Do you think natural human morality should exceed God's patience in this regard?

1,143 posted on 04/30/2003 1:06:26 PM PDT by donh
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