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- From: markp@joplin.wri.com (Mark Pundurs)
- Subject: Re: Who are you guys?
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- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 15:44:40 GMT
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- In <1993Jan12.023353.3191@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> mcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mark A. Cochran) writes:
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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".
-
- The technical term for what you've just posted is "trying to
- bluster your way out of a corner." Abortion is a matter of ethics,
- and ethics is a branch of philosophy. If you can't take the
- philosophy, get out of the kitchen!
-
- > Mark Cochran merlin@eddie.ee.vt.edu
-
- Mark Pundurs
-