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To: BikerNYC
"Good" exits in the same sense that "loud" exists.

When you have a choice, equal in all other aspects, between doing good or evil, do you flip a coin?

If not, why?

35 posted on 11/24/2004 10:25:32 PM PST by D-fendr
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To: D-fendr
There are very few things I do in life that are based upon the flip of a coin (except, maybe, to choose a lottery number). I have done good things and I have done evil things. I have regretted some of my prior actions, both good and evil.

I see others commit good and evil acts, some of which I understand and some of which I don't. Some acts, both good and evil, I see myself committing if I were in the same situation.

What the causes are that might drive me to act this way or that, I do not know.

What I do know is that I perceive the quality of goodness in the world, just as I perceive the quality of loudness. I believe it is an improper use of language to speak of either goodness or loudness as existing other than as a quality of an object of perception.
36 posted on 11/25/2004 8:18:24 PM PST by BikerNYC
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