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To: Blogger
"If Osama Bin Laden walked into your living room today and decided to torture and decapitate you, would that be wrong?"

No, because I really wish he'd give it his best shot.

If you're asking in general regarding the moral code. It is wrong to violate someone's life and sovereignty of will. As I said, that moral statement protects the essence of man. No one is justified to take another's life, or violate their right to sovereignty of will w/o just cause as in sanction, or to protect the rights of others against imminent violation.

2,581 posted on 12/20/2006 10:43:16 PM PST by spunkets
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To: spunkets
Who says it is wrong to violate someone's life? You? Sorry. You don't choose the rules for society in your world. Society's conventions choose the rules. If I am in Indonesia in a radical Muslim community, they believe it is right to take your life and will enter into bold celebrations as they parade your lifeless head around their community. The community actually has determined, by their convention, that having you dead is what's right for them. You have no basis to say they are wrong. Right and wrong can not exist in your world. Only opinion. You may not like it that you are being tortured and killed, but you can not say it is wrong. Society's convention already dictated that it was okay.
2,582 posted on 12/20/2006 11:03:37 PM PST by Blogger
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