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To: Old Landmarks
The need to prove that another standard for our culture is better is your burden, not mine.

Well, I didn't say that any one moral standard was superior. You did. So, it seems only proper that you should show why.

The traditional morality of America, the one hated so badly by liberals, the historical default standard of America is the one I will stay with until someone can 'prove' they have a better one

In #116 I wrote the following: "Every society has a concept of the right and wrong; their own brand of morality. In all societies, restrictions to conduct, and punishment based on misconduct, serve to protects the community."

This is not about liberals trying to change our standards or proposing a different standard for us.

166 posted on 03/25/2010 7:59:16 AM PDT by kosta50 (The world is the way it is even if YOU don't understand it)
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To: kosta50
For someone who is not really proposing a different standard you sure do a good imitation, but I haven't seen the one you want to use to replace the one we have aways had.

I am glad you quote #1161 which just repeated what I said and what most everyone else said, roughly, Nazi Germany and the Kmer Rouge had a different view of things than the U.S.A.

They both legalized murder as a good.

Not sure why you would repeat what we have already said, for the question is not whether or not societies have had somewhat different foundations or presuppositions about morality(some worse than others, unless you are saying any one of them is as good as the next), but the question is, has one or more proven to be superior to others if prosperity, liberty, and murder, or other trivial things like that mean anything to you.

If ours is not as good as the one you have, then you need to prove your standard is worthy to replace the one we have always had. You have it exactly backwards.

175 posted on 03/25/2010 10:44:17 AM PDT by Old Landmarks (No fear of man, none!)
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