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To: liberallarry
Your moral relativism is showing. The question is, were the Germans who opposed Hitler and the Italians who opposed Mussolini right to do so? (Curious that you left out the Russians who opposed Stalin.) Now if an American believes the US is similar to those tyrannies, is he right to oppose his country, or is he simply wrong to think the US is similar? Assuming the man to have a deluded belief, is he somehow right, or the better for acting on it? Or are you saying that all opinions are of equal correctness, no matter whether well thought out and based in fact, or not.
19 posted on 11/10/2002 6:21:32 PM PST by thucydides
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To: thucydides
Your moral relativism is showing

Is it? I think you, too, have mis-read my post.

Curious that you left out the Russians who opposed Stalin

From my post: "We applaud those Russians and Germans who fought communism and nazism"

What's curious is that you mis-read this. What does that reveal about you?

The question is, were the Germans who opposed Hitler and the Italians who opposed Mussolini right to do so?...if an American believes the US is similar to those tyrannies, is he right to oppose his country

One of the great moral questions. I would answer yes to both. You may not.

Assuming the man to have a deluded belief, is he somehow right, or the better for acting on it? Or are you saying that all opinions are of equal correctness, no matter whether well thought out and based in fact, or not

I do not think, nor have I ever said, that all opinions are of equal correctness. The idea is manifestly absurd. The idea that the earth is flat is of equal value with the idea that the earth is round? That said however we must recognize that no one has a sustainable claim to absolute certainty. We must all act on imperfect information - or not act at all. Reasonable people recognize this and try to guage the value of their opinions before engaging in actions with very serious consequences but at some point conscience must be your guide.

22 posted on 11/10/2002 7:07:22 PM PST by liberallarry
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To: thucydides
I just thought of a great example; the American civil war. Each side thought it was morally correct. Brother fought brother. Yet even to this day the justifications are debated.
23 posted on 11/10/2002 7:27:44 PM PST by liberallarry
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