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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 23:23:39 GMT
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- In <3439@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> joemays@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Joseph F. Mays) writes:
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- >In article <markp.726677398@spider.wri.com> markp@spider.wri.com (Mark Pundurs) writes:
- >>In <1l_3zzr@rpi.edu> cookc@aix.rpi.edu (rocker) writes:
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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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- >Why do many pro-life advocates believe that pro-choice advocates do not
- >believe in absolute ethical standards? I *do* believe in absolute
- >ethical standards. By my ethical standards, refusing a woman a right
- >to choose an abortion is wrong. My standards are every bit as absolute
- >as yourse, they are just different.
-
- To say "my standards are right for me, and yours are right for you"
- is to say that these standards are relative. In contrast, absolute
- standards apply to everyone.
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- >It is insulting that you conclude
- >that since my standards are different from yours, I therefore have no
- >standards.
-
- I make no such conclusion. (See above.)
-
- >Joe
-
- Mark Pundurs
-