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To: jennyp
No, all we need to be moral is to understand the difference between short term and long term consequences of our actions.

Morality and all of its associated ideals are rooted entirely in the presupposition some higher power defines what is correct in human behavior.

The very idea that human beings have individual rights not subject to the whims of an earthly monarch, but subject to the laws of Yahweh, is directly from Moses.

In Plato's Euthyphro, Socrates advanced the argument that piety to the gods is impossible if the gods all want different things. Morality is impossible, because all humans have different morals and they are idols of human design.

Claims of morality is sophistry without some singular higher power defining what it is.

109 posted on 12/31/2006 5:09:29 AM PST by Sir Francis Dashwood (LET'S ROLL!)
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To: Sir Francis Dashwood
Claims of morality is sophistry without some singular higher power defining what it is.

Sure, but the "higher power" is not a person. It's the objective truth of human nature and what kinds of behavior thriving in that environment requires.

Uh-oh, I can see your fingers itching to press the cut & paste button, but please do try to respond to that in your own words this time.

111 posted on 12/31/2006 12:06:28 PM PST by jennyp (Just a one-day suspension? That's bait & switch!)
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