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- From: markp@joplin.wri.com (Mark Pundurs)
- Subject: Re: Who are you guys?
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- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 17:50:45 GMT
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- In <1is9upINNuk@hpsdde.sdd.hp.com> regard@hpsdde.sdd.hp.com (Adrienne Regard) writes:
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- >In article <markp.726677398@spider.wri.com> markp@spider.wri.com (Mark Pundurs) writes:
- >>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?
-
- >Uh, no.
- >See, people who do believe in absolute ethical standards BELIEVE in absolute
- >ethical standards and don't need to get into debates. From their point of
- >view, there is nothing to debate.
-
- Uh, no.
- I believe that absolute ethical standards exist. (If I thought ethical
- standards were intrinsically subjective, it wouldn't make sense for me
- to argue with others in favor of my standards.) But I'm by no means
- convinced that the standards I presently hold completely correspond
- to the absolute ideal -- just that they're closer than any alternative
- I've seen. Show me better standards than mine -- and demonstrate that
- they're better -- and I'll joyfully adopt them.
-
- >Adrienne Regard
-
- Mark Pundurs
-