[inquest]

I cannot argue with this case you have laid out here.

OK, but part of the case I laid out was that was that there is a definite moral principle in what I was describing. Were you accepting that, too?

So, I would agree that this pull from within is real, but the question is, who's doing the pulling? Does it come entirely from the inside, or does it come from the outside?

Well, that is the question (or questions, I guess), isn't it? Something for another thread, I would say at this point.

[general_re]

OK, but part of the case I laid out was that was that there is a definite moral principle in what I was describing. Were you accepting that, too?

What, that it's wrong to hurt people? I've never (seriously) disputed that, though. I don't run around pushing over old ladies and looking for puppies to kick, you know ;)

The only thing I take issue with is the foundation of that statement, where the notion of the wrongness of it comes from in the first place. I can't disprove that morality is a universal truth, or that God is somehow responsible for the nature of what we call morality. All I can try to do is show that neither one is necessary, that alternate, perhaps more parsimonious, explanations exist.