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- From: arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu (Ken Arromdee)
- Subject: Re: God speaks
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.212639.18796@blaze.cs.jhu.edu>
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- Organization: Johns Hopkins University CS Dept.
- References: <1992Nov21.235743.3763@csrd.uiuc.edu> <ksand-211192223728@wintermute.apple.com> <1992Nov22.192305.23123@csrd.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 21:26:39 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov22.192305.23123@csrd.uiuc.edu> g-skinner@uiuc.edu writes:
- >Mr. Sandvik asks more questions, but still refuses to either retract
- >or defend his claim that he is morally sound. I am forced to repeat
- >myself.
-
- Requiring him to defend a claim of being morally sound is somewhat equivalent
- to the following: I claim that only axe-murderers watch MTV. You say "well,
- I watch MTV and I'm not an axe-murderer". I reply "prove you're not an axe
- murderer".
-
- Under any reasonable definition of morally sound, most people are morally
- sound. The default assumption, then, is that someone is; they may freely
- argue based on it, and it is up to you to prove them wrong, not the reverse.
- --
- "the bogosity in a field equals the bogosity imported from related areas, plus
- the bogosity generated internally, minus the bogosity expelled or otherwise
- disposed of." -- K. Eric Drexler
-
- Ken Arromdee (arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu, arromdee@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu)
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