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To: Gumlegs
Can you come up with an idea that cannot possibly in any way, no matter how its twisted, ever lead to evil?

No. And conversly you can come up with absolutely perverse ideas that in a specfic instance actually leads to good.

But a view that teaches we serve the universe by loving our neighbor is more likely to result in good than a view that survival is the reward of the fit.

275 posted on 08/14/2002 3:28:21 PM PDT by Tribune7
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To: Tribune7
And conversly you can come up with absolutely perverse ideas that in a specfic instance actually leads to good.

I don't see the point of trying.

But a view that teaches we serve the universe by loving our neighbor is more likely to result in good than a view that survival is the reward of the fit.

You would appear to be confusing an observation (survival of the fittest), with a prescription. It's not and isn't intended to be.

342 posted on 08/15/2002 8:08:03 AM PDT by Gumlegs
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To: Tribune7
Upon further reflection, nuking Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a perverse idea that actually led good.

My previous assumption was that you wanted me to come up with an original, perverse idea that would lead to good. That's what I don't see the point of. Perverse as I naturally am.

343 posted on 08/15/2002 8:28:50 AM PDT by Gumlegs
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