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To: exmarine
With reference to the commandments, depending upon your interpretation, it's either kill or murder, it's relative to your beliefs. No act is morally neutral, the act is relative. What is immoral to one, is not necessarilty immoral to another. This is not to say immoral acts are inexcusable, all people must be held responsible to what, at the time and place, is considered immoral/illegal according to society...which, by the way is relative. If you lived in ancient Britain, it would have been perfectly acceptable to raid a neighboring tribe, steal their cattle and women and murder the men...it would not have been acceptable to do that within your own tribe. Were these acts of theft and murder based on moral absolutes, or relatives? Morals mean very little unless tied to actions...something about roads paved with good intentions or the like.
653 posted on 05/07/2003 5:58:12 AM PDT by stuartcr
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To: stuartcr
f you lived in ancient Britain, it would have been perfectly acceptable to raid a neighboring tribe, steal their cattle and women and murder the men...it would not have been acceptable to do that within your own tribe. Were these acts of theft and murder based on moral absolutes, or relatives?

Neither, of course. They were acts of immorality.

655 posted on 05/07/2003 6:50:41 AM PDT by unspun (Sorry, but this line is busy.)
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To: stuartcr
With reference to the commandments, depending upon your interpretation, it's either kill or murder, it's relative to your beliefs.

No, it's not open to interpretation. The hebrew word is clearly "murder".

662 posted on 05/07/2003 7:09:01 AM PDT by exmarine
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To: stuartcr
This is not to say immoral acts are inexcusable, all people must be held responsible to what, at the time and place, is considered immoral/illegal according to society...which, by the way is relative.

Which society sets the standard? All are different. You mean the society that has the most power to enforce its brand of morality? I will tell you now that morals will not make sense if they are manmade - relativism is full of holes and there is no way to plug them.

663 posted on 05/07/2003 7:10:51 AM PDT by exmarine
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