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To: Melas

I guess slavish devotion to pornography lends a new meaning to "from my cold dead hands".

Picking and choosing which morality to abide by in terms of what should be legal and illegal is the most important choice to be made, not counting how to defeat Islamic Jihadis.

What do you think of Peter Singer? He's the poster boy of rejecting the moral absolutes which are essentially the same in every monotheist religion in the history of the world. You should like his proposals, since you and he are on the same wavelength of how to decide right and wrong.


414 posted on 11/23/2004 5:05:35 PM PST by little jeremiah (Moral absolutes are what make humans human.)
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To: little jeremiah
I guess slavish devotion to pornography lends a new meaning to "from my cold dead hands".

That's really the irony. Porn is rather boring, and I don't watch it. Not that I'm bragging of my virtue, I'm just not overly voyueristic. Not my thing. I just don't want YOU and YOURS to make that decision for me. I resent the idea of big daddy approving my reading material. Imagine that, a grown man, wanting to be treated like a grown man.

Picking and choosing which morality to abide by in terms of what should be legal and illegal is the most important choice to be made, not counting how to defeat Islamic Jihadis.

Absolutely. I vote for freedom and liberty. I guess I'm just enamored by those obscure concepts like consent of the governed. Surely you've heard of it? Perhaps you've even heard of the great government debacle called prohibition, where the governed didn't consent and big daddy government had to back off and hand the keys to the liquor cabinet back. Countless political careers were ruined when the state legislatures ratified that Amendment against the will of the people, and in short order, those same legislatures with different bodies in the chairs repealed it.

What do you think of Peter Singer? He's the poster boy of rejecting the moral absolutes which are essentially the same in every monotheist religion in the history of the world. You should like his proposals, since you and he are on the same wavelength of how to decide right and wrong.

Ah, I see. I don't believe in your god, so you liken me to a nutbar like Singer. I've never seen that tactic before. For the record, Singer is an A1 nutboy. Singer lost me when his schtick was still animal rights, and I understand he's since moved on from there.

Actually, you're more like Singer than I my friend. You and Singer both share the ideology that big daddy government should make as many laws as possible to reign in all those nasty freedoms the people enjoy. After all, someone, somewhere, some how, just might be having fun, and we certainly have to put a stop to that.

415 posted on 11/24/2004 2:06:37 AM PST by Melas
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