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To: Hank Kerchief
...This does not mean a person can do just anything they like, so long as they like it. They cannot take deadly poison into their body and not suffer the conequences. They cannot take mind-numbing nonsense into their minds and not suffer the consequences. A human being cannot live contrary to the requirements of their own physiology and psychology and get away with it. This, too, every individual must discover.

I don't see anything in your this post, HK that isn't relativism; "law of the jungle" as Alamo-Girl has said. Nothing about not harming others, for instance. It looks more hole than doughnut to me.

647 posted on 05/06/2003 8:26:27 PM PDT by unspun (Roamin' catholic....)
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To: unspun; Alamo-Girl
I don't see anything in your this post, HK that isn't relativism; "law of the jungle" as Alamo-Girl has said. Nothing about not harming others, for instance. It looks more hole than doughnut to me.

Everyone tends to see things as they are. The thief believes everyone is a thief, the liar thinks everyone is a liar. Seeing "law of the jungle" in rational values is a comment only on the one doing the seeing.

Those who embrace a rational moral view not only do not initiate the use of force against any other individual, but neither desire or pursue anything they have not earned by their own effort. This is entirely from selfish motives.

Why do those whose moral values are based on arbitrary dictates, totally disconnected from reality, the nature of the beings to whom they are supposed to apply, or the world they live in, exhibit an almost hysterical hatred for those who pose no threat to anyone, and could not be induced to be a threat to them by any means.

Why do you hate reason, truth, decency, honesty, and virtue so much? You must hate them, or you would not always be excoriating those who espouse them.

Hank

649 posted on 05/06/2003 10:13:48 PM PDT by Hank Kerchief
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