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To: MEGoody
So what objective source do morals come from in your view?

My moral code is derived via the application of reason, to the observation of reality.

77 posted on 02/26/2003 10:28:07 AM PST by OWK
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To: OWK
"My moral code is derived via the application of reason, to the observation of reality."

Ah, so in other words, you use 'reason' as you define it and 'reality' as you perceive it. That is not an objective source for morals.

79 posted on 02/26/2003 10:29:51 AM PST by MEGoody
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To: OWK
My (( owk )) moral code (( owk ))is derived via the application of reason (( owk )) , to the observation (( owk )) of reality (( owk )).


77 posted on 02/26/2003 10:28 AM PST by OWK


Tautology !
82 posted on 02/26/2003 10:31:29 AM PST by f.Christian (( + God *IS* Truth + love courage // LIBERTY *logic* *SANITY*Awakening + ))
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To: OWK
My moral code is derived via the application of reason, to the observation of reality.

But where does your reason come from? Without moral guidance, we would be a Lord of The Flies society.

BTW, glad to see you are back.

107 posted on 02/26/2003 10:55:08 AM PST by Hacksaw
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To: OWK
My moral code is derived via the application of reason, to the observation of reality.

Which seems far quicker to punish transgressors in practice than God, I might add. Reality is pretty diligent about collecting on its accounts one way or another.

128 posted on 02/26/2003 11:05:45 AM PST by tortoise
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To: OWK
My moral code is derived via the application of reason, to the observation of reality.

...and disregarding minor inconveniences such as how reality and reason came into existence.
Oh yeah, and that little logical incosistency about no one can be certain of any existence but his own, yet at the OWK-defined intersection of wills of a known existent and an assumed(?) existent, a "natural" barrier has..what.."evolved"? appeared? ...that prevents one from pushing their personally-derived value sytem upon others (WHAT others? By your own reason, you cannot know if others exist, but yet realization of this "objective" is the engine used to derive individual value-systems?).

Okay, I went back and re-read your screed...and I keep getting this image of a snake eating it's own tail....

165 posted on 02/26/2003 11:32:36 AM PST by Ignatz
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