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To: D-fendr; kosta50

When you have tools A, B, C, D... and so on, but find that only tool C has helped you and everyone else in overcoming every single moral conundrum ever come across, it would be safe to say that tool C is the only tool of relevance in solving problems pertaining to morality.

That tool, is the Golden Rule.

The rest, like the child slaughter-mandating 1 Samuel 15:3 that you choose to ignore as if it weren’t even part of the entire cafeteria you’ve called your own (even when you cannot explain what that verse, and others that were pointed to you, earlier, are in your scriptures for), are what tool C isn’t, when compared to the other tools. If tool C suffices, it is the truth. The rest, are garbs thrown around some truth. If you have tool C, you can throw out the other tools, as they aren’t of any use when it pertains to morality.


1,554 posted on 02/19/2011 12:13:21 AM PST by James C. Bennett (An Australian.)
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To: James C. Bennett
Ok. I think I see: It "works" very well as a tool, it's effective.

helped you and everyone else in overcoming every single moral conundrum

It's a useful tool in making moral decisions.

If I'm understanding so far... The value of the tool is it helps you make morally right decisions.

Wouldn't you still have to have some other measure of "morally right" in order to judge the value and effectiveness of the tool in achieving it??

1,555 posted on 02/19/2011 12:20:49 AM PST by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: James C. Bennett
Ok. I think I see: It "works" very well as a tool, it's effective.

helped you and everyone else in overcoming every single moral conundrum

It's a useful tool in making moral decisions.

If I'm understanding so far... The value of the tool is it helps you make morally right decisions.

Wouldn't you still have to have some other measure of "morally right" in order to judge the value and effectiveness of the tool in achieving it??

1,556 posted on 02/19/2011 12:20:52 AM PST by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: James C. Bennett
The other alternative is:

whatever the results of using the tool are, they morally right because you used the tool to make them.

1,557 posted on 02/19/2011 12:22:25 AM PST by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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