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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 23:29:39 GMT
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- In <PATRICK.93Jan11124309@rio-grande.is.rice.edu> patrick@rio-grande.is.rice.edu (Patrick L Humphrey) writes:
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- >On Mon, 11 Jan 1993 16:53:15 GMT, markp@joplin.wri.com (Mark Pundurs) said:
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- >>In <PATRICK.93Jan10095527@rio-grande.is.rice.edu> patrick@rio-grande.is.rice.edu (Patrick L Humphrey) writes:
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- >>>On Sun, 10 Jan 1993 14:49:58 GMT, markp@spider.wri.com (Mark Pundurs) said:
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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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- >>>It's almost as pointless as those who *do* believe in absolute ethics trying
- >>>to impose them upon those who don't...
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- >>By definition, absolute ethics apply to everyone. (You seem to
- >>think, "Don't impose your ethics on others" applies to everyone -- you
- >>coercive fascist, you!)
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- >Don't pat yourself on the back too hard, Mark -- you're taking shots in the
- >dark, and missing, as is to be expected. It'd be nice if everyone else
- >*would* refrain from imposing their morality on others -- but why should it
- >happen? Everyone has their own set, which may or may not coincide with
- >someone else's. Me, I don't impose my morals on anyone -- until someone
- >tries to force theirs on me, at which point I'll defend myself and mine.
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- And if his morality says that forcing his morals on others is right
- and proper, then he'll see your resistance as an imposition on his
- morals.
-
- Relativism saws off the branch on which it sits.
-
- >>>--PLH, never miss a straight line
- >>(or think in a straight line :-) )
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- >Yeah, yeah, yeah -- at least I can think in something more than binary
- >terms...
-
- >--PLH, calling Dr. Daystrom...
-
- Mark Pundurs
-