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To: eastforker
"Like I said in post 58, forget about your philosophy major you took in college.You are speaking out of a textbook. Get some real life experience.Stop off and have a beer or two at your local ice house, play the jukebox, shoot a game of pool and get to know some country boys and buy that red head at the bar a drink.Learn what it means to make a deal on a handshake, that when you say somethin you mean what you say. Go catch a fish and tell him thank you when you either eat him or turn him loose.Go to someones aid with no expectation of anything in return. Learn these things and put the books back on the shelf."

What does any of this have to do with an objective basis for right and wrong? This is nothing to do with the question, it's just the stuff you personally like to do. I've done all of it too. YOu are merely saying whatever makes you feel good is what is right. On that basis why not just steal cars and kill people if it makes me feel good. That would be just as "right" as the stuff you posit.

74 posted on 12/20/2010 2:37:25 PM PST by circlecity
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To: circlecity
On that basis why not just steal cars and kill people if it makes me feel good. That would be just as "right" as the stuff you posit.

That's when the Principle of Reciprocity comes with its Karmic returns.

75 posted on 12/20/2010 2:40:17 PM PST by James C. Bennett
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To: circlecity
On that basis why not just steal cars and kill people if it makes me feel good. That would be just as “right” as the stuff you posit.

No you see there you are wrong in your thinking.You are trying to analyze by some one Else's thinking.You know in your heart it is wrong to steal-You know it is wrong to kill without good reason. In some societies though, it is okay to steal if that is your profession.but not all people in that society steal.You are living a book mentality, you are letting someone else tell you how to behave. You are a slave to your education. Where is your free will? Free will is having the ability to take someones life or possessions, but, not doing it because you know it's wrong, not because somebody said it was wrong.Free will, we all have it and we are responsible for our action to society and our conciouns.

78 posted on 12/20/2010 2:53:14 PM PST by eastforker (Visit me at http://www.eastforker.com)
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