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To: Lost Highway; MineralMan
I guess to me it seems that if there is nothing after this life then who cares wether one does right or wrong? What motivates you to want to do right even when you know you could totally get away with wrong and you would never get caught? (Again, I am seriously curious)

If you do right you'll be rewarded in this life: others will respect you, aid you and generally do good things for you - and feel bad if they don't.

You can't totally get away with wrong. At the very least you know it's wrong, and that will injure you.

Doing right is usually the easiest way in the end. Doing wrong usually ends in making you unhappy. That's one of the easiest ways to tell it's wrong.

723 posted on 08/21/2003 3:04:06 PM PDT by jimt
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To: jimt
If you do right you'll be rewarded in this life: others will respect you, aid you and generally do good things for you - and feel bad if they don't.

So you do right because it really benefits you. As I just asked MineralMan what makes something right or wrong? If not God soceity?

727 posted on 08/21/2003 3:10:10 PM PDT by Lost Highway
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To: jimt; MineralMan
Thanks for your comments and patience. Unfortuately I have to run. Hopefully we can pick this up again sometime.
729 posted on 08/21/2003 3:14:22 PM PDT by Lost Highway
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