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To: BikerNYC
There may be actions which almost all of us might agree are good, but the judgment is ultimately individual.

Say, all other conditions were equal, and you had a choice in some particular instance: be cruel or be kind.

Are you saying that if "almost all of us" agreed it was better to be cruel than kind, then your being cruel would be "good"?

In other words, "goodness" is what most say is good. That is what makes it good?

44 posted on 11/26/2004 11:52:51 PM PST by D-fendr
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To: D-fendr
No...each individual makes a judgment as to what is good or not good...sometimes our judgments are more in agreement with each other than at other times.

It's like the best seller list. All the list tells you is what many people judge to be a book worth buying. It doesn't tell you anything about whether or not a book on the list is good. To find that out, you actually have to ask someone who has read the book whether or not the book is good. The judgment is individual.
46 posted on 11/28/2004 5:24:08 AM PST by BikerNYC
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