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To: Diamond
Who comes up with what's moral? Whoever has the most power? In a democracy the people...in a dictatorship, the dictator. Scary, but unfortunately true.
428 posted on 05/21/2002 10:10:50 AM PDT by JediGirl
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To: JediGirl
Who comes up with what's moral? Whoever has the most power? In a democracy the people...in a dictatorship, the dictator. Scary, but unfortunately true.

428 posted on 5/21/02 10:10 AM Pacific by JediGirl

Doesn't knowledge--science create LAW...'morality'?

432 posted on 05/21/2002 10:27:09 AM PDT by f.Christian
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To: JediGirl
Who comes up with what's moral? Whoever has the most power? In a democracy the people...in a dictatorship, the dictator. Scary, but unfortunately true.

You're not a libertarian, are you?

450 posted on 05/21/2002 10:54:38 AM PDT by r9etb
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To: JediGirl
Who comes up with what's moral? Whoever has the most power? In a democracy the people...in a dictatorship, the dictator.

So, suppose you were living in the NAZI era and a Jewish person comes to you for refuge. What should you do, if by definition whatever society says at any given time is right?

Cordially

451 posted on 05/21/2002 10:55:04 AM PDT by Diamond
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