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Date: | Sun, 3 Oct 1999 01:39:53 -0400 |
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>> Jess, how can morality be objective? Martin, think about this one.
>If you and I have the same moral code with respect to bombing, then
>our moral code on bombing is objective with respect to us.
I still don't understand. Can you explain this statement a little better(or
someone else try)? Cause I'm having difficulty getting it.
>If I protest the bombing of Yugoslavia on the basis that it is immoral
because my moral code says that bombing is immoral, and I do not
protest the bombing of Chechnya, then either my alleged moral code is
not my real moral code, or I have a double standard.
Actually it should be because "I have a double standard" therefore "my
alleged moral code is not my real moral code".
>Since I claim that my moral code includes the rule that bombing is immoral,
and I write from that position and allow you to believe that I mean it, if I
protest the one bombing and not the other, I am being dishonest.
There are more "rules" in ones moral code, I think. You quickly jump on the
dishonesty concept without looking at other factors which my cause someone
to act. This could be the reason why you see many activists as "dishonest".
>Either my alleging that I am protesting the bombing of Yugoslavia on
moral grounds is false, or my claim that I do not have a double
standard on protesting bombing is false.
Or you have other reasons that caused you to or not to protest bombing.
I think you have to expand your thinking to come to more accurate conclusions.
Milutin
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While arms warehouses fill as quick as tha cells
Rally round tha family, pockets full of shells
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