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- From: mcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mark A. Cochran)
- Subject: Re: Who are you guys?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.023353.3191@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 02:33:53 GMT
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- In article <markp.726770654@joplin.wri.com> markp@joplin.wri.com (Mark Pundurs) writes:
- >In <1993Jan10.160929.2895@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> mcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mark A. Cochran) writes:
- >
- >>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:
- >>>
- >>>>Sure she can, Mark. At least by my ethics. Which ethics are you using?
- >>>
- >>>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?
- >>>
- >>Because it prevents people like you from imposing your own ethical
- >>standards on the rest of the world.
- >
- >But now YOU'RE holding ME to an absolute ethical standard: "Don't
- >impose your views on others." If ethical standards are, by definition,
- >subjective, then so is the standard you're imposing on me.
- >
- I'm not attempting to impose any standards on you, I am simply
- preventing you from imposing your standards on others. I doubt you're
- bright enough to see the difference.
-
- >Don't you get it, Mark? Your relativism saws off the branch on which
- >it sits.
- >
- The technical term for what you've just posted is
- "pseudo-philosophical bullshit". At leat try to come up with something
- original. You tried to saw Patricks branch off too, and it didn't
- work.
-
- --
- Mark Cochran merlin@eddie.ee.vt.edu
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