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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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To: Blogger
"Who says it is wrong to violate someone's life? You? Sorry. You don't choose the rules for society in your world."

Your respect for the rights of others is noted.

"Society's conventions choose the rules."

No. The rules either involve the respect for the life, sovereignty of will and the rights of others, or there is arbitrary authoritarian rule by some through deceit and coercion. There is no other possibility.

"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."

Rule by a few, by deceit and coecion.

'The community actually has determined, by their convention, that having you dead is what's right for them."

Others simply jail their victims. Same thing, different crowd of clowns and buffoons.

"You have no basis to say they are wrong. Right and wrong can not exist in your world. Only opinion. "

My basis was given above. The only other choice is arbitrary authoritarian rule by some, using the methods of deceit and coercion.

"You may not like it that you are being tortured and killed, but you can not say it is wrong."

I'll say whatever I want and I'll also fight them.

"Society's convention already dictated that it was okay."

I suppose they justified it with a vote. Now where have i seen that before? ...

2,586 posted on 12/20/2006 11:42:46 PM PST by spunkets
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