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- From: markp@joplin.wri.com (Mark Pundurs)
- Subject: Re: Ethics, absolute and otherwise
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- References: <markp.726528552@spider.wri.com> <1l_3zzr@rpi.edu> <markp.726677398@spider.wri.com> <1993Jan10.215310.28728@Princeton.EDU>
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- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 17:21:42 GMT
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- In <1993Jan10.215310.28728@Princeton.EDU> datepper@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (David Aaron Tepper) writes:
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- >In article <markp.726677398@spider.wri.com>, markp@spider.wri.com (Mark
- >Pundurs) writes:
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- >>In <1l_3zzr@rpi.edu> cookc@aix.rpi.edu (rocker) writes:
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- >>>markp@spider.wri.com (Mark Pundurs) writes:
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- >>>>In <1993Jan8.164325.8820@advtech.uswest.com> steven@advtech.uswest.com
- >( Steve Novak) writes:
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- >[deletia]
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- >>>>>Sure she can, Mark. At least in the U.S. Where are you from?
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- >>>>Fine; make that, "...she may not ethically choose..."
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- >>>Sure she can, Mark. At least by my ethics. Which ethics are you
- >>>using?
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- >>Why do people who don't believe in absolute ethical standards
- >>get involved in debates over ethical standards? Isn't it either
- >>pointless or self-contradictory?
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- >Not at all. There are no absolute ethical standards because no single
- >system of ethics can possibly cover all 5 billion+ people in the world.
- >Individuals, however, do have personal systems of ethics by which they
- >live their lives--by which they _should_ live their lives.
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- But why DEBATE them?
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- >Tep
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- Mark Pundurs
-