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- From: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals)
- Newsgroups: alt.callahans
- Subject: Re: God and Science: The Ramblings of The Nightstalker
- Date: 21 Nov 1992 01:54:15 GMT
- Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
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- In article <1992Nov20.205017.12655@midway.uchicago.edu>, mss2@quads.uchicago.edu (Michael S. Schiffer) writes:
- > "Well, I've explained my take on it as well as I'm able: that
- >moral situations only exist within a context, that sometimes the only
- >choice may be between two evils, that intent is important with respect
- >to both means and ends, and that belief in a standard is not the same
- >as belief that one knows the standard inside and out. Conversely, my
- >problem with relativism is that it implies that an identical action,
- >under identical circumstances, with identical intent, may be right for
- >Jane and wrong for Joe--
-
- StM answers, "But there seems to be a problem here: How do you define things so
- that you can have `an identical action, under identical circumstances, with
- identical intent' when you've got two different people as the actors? Unless
- Jane and Joe are, themselves, identical, then you've got different
- circumstances and/or different intent. If, on the other hand, Jane and Joe ARE
- identical, then they'll take identical actions. It looks to me like you're
- using as the basis for your argument a hypothetical situation that's literally
- impossible."
-