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To: exmarine
This is nothing more than morals = preference.

Indeed, that is the nature of my argument. I do not claim that morals are abstractly absolutely good. That is your claim. I don't believe, for example, that you can demonstrate that it's good for the universe that it be infected by humans, however, I think the human moral community is a reasonably good choice of a moral community to work for and be commited to to secure things to me and posterity that seem valuable.

I merely claim that morals are likely to profit the moral community that adheres to them. The morals of a gang of thugs, not to rat each other out when captured are, for example, not disqualified. Not a very sensible long-term choice of a moral community, but there are no provable transcendental restrictions on what can be a moral community, only common sense restrictions.

1,160 posted on 04/30/2003 4:42:05 PM PDT by donh
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To: donh
I don't believe, for example, that you can demonstrate that it's good for the universe that it be infected by humans, however, I think the human moral community is a reasonably good choice of a moral community to work for and be commited to to secure things to me and posterity that seem valuable.

YOu can't logically make any moral truth claims that are outside of your own community, so I will thank you to stop using words like "universe" - you contradict yourself when you do. Any morals outside of your community ARE TRUE AND RIGHT in your system, so spare me your contradictory prattle.

1,207 posted on 05/01/2003 8:09:51 AM PDT by exmarine
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