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To: Physicist
So than how can we hold the Taliban accountable for their values? By what basis do you debate my values? Your world is in a constant state of flux, dictated by man and his surroundings at the time. (If time truly exists)
31 posted on 10/15/2001 8:17:55 PM PDT by Heartlander
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To: Heartlander
I don't feel like typing in the standard Objectivist theory of moral sentiments tonight. Suffice it to say that I am a moral absolutist. The only possible standard of value for a human being to hold is human life; every other standard is necessarily self-contradictory. The rest of morality flows ineluctably from this.

Besides, I also reject the notion that, if their moral system is somehow objectively equivalent to ours--which it isn't--we therefore can't judge them according to our moral system. Not judging people according to your moral system is tantamount to not having a moral system at all.

36 posted on 10/15/2001 8:24:59 PM PDT by Physicist
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