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To: orionblamblam
Nope. Committing such acts greatly increases the risk to yourself and your potential progeny, at no gain.

Untrue. Many murders result in gain for the murder. There is a risk reward ratio.

Do you think that anyone has ever gotten away with murder? If so, were they OK to murder?

Were individual Nazis at great risk for murdering?

Over the last million or more years, as we evolved from a smart ape-like critter to the more or less civilized species we are now,

Wrong thread for that opinion.

That's why there are a number of acts that are pretty much *universally* considered immoral.

Ah. morality by vote. LOL If it's universally thought to be moral, it is. Liberals love situational ethics too.

You convince people that God told you to do so?

Impossible to tell what this comment means.

95 posted on 01/26/2005 10:51:27 AM PST by Protagoras (No one is fit to be a master and no one deserves to be a slave. GWB 1-20-05)
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To: Protagoras

> Many murders result in gain for the murder.

Did I say otherwise? No. Read it again: I said it increases risk.

> Were individual Nazis at great risk for murdering?

Actaully, yes. You bust into someone's home with murder on your mind, and whether you're backed up by a couple of thugs or by a batallion of Waffen SS the chance the home owner's gonna blast you in the face with a shotgun is higher than if you decided to stay in bed that day.

> Wrong thread for that opinion.

The topic had drifted to morality. The evolution of morality is thus relevant.

> Liberals love situational ethics too.

So do conservatives. I don't happen to have a problem with US spies stealing documents from the Iranian nuclear program, for example. Do you?

> Impossible to tell what this comment means.

No, it's not. Read it in context. Then read the Old Testament. Murder and rape were hunky-dory so long as those doing it claimed to have God on their side.


118 posted on 01/26/2005 11:00:38 AM PST by orionblamblam
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