home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Path: sparky!uunet!mnemosyne.cs.du.edu!nyx!mcochran
- From: mcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mark A. Cochran)
- Subject: Re: Who are you guys?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan13.015810.6641@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- X-Disclaimer: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University
- of Denver for the Denver community. The University has neither
- control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
- Sender: usenet@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu (netnews admin account)
- Organization: None worth mentioning.
- References: <markp.726774645@joplin.wri.com> <1993Jan12.023817.3315@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <markp.726853812@joplin.wri.com>
- Date: Wed, 13 Jan 93 01:58:10 GMT
- Lines: 33
-
- In article <markp.726853812@joplin.wri.com> markp@joplin.wri.com (Mark Pundurs) writes:
- >In <1993Jan12.023817.3315@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> mcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mark A. Cochran) writes:
- >
- >>In article <markp.726774645@joplin.wri.com> markp@joplin.wri.com (Mark Pundurs) writes:
- >
- >>[Mr. Delete Key is happy...]
- >
- >>>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.
- >>>
- >>Feel free to try and provide us with a single example of an "absolute
- >>ethic" since you are so certain they exist.
- >
- >Feel free to try and explain why you bother debating ethics, since
- >you seem to beleive that absolute (i.e., universally correct) ethical
- >standards don't exist.
- >
- Because it gives me pleasure watching you squirm away from the
- questions directed at you. I'll repeat.
- Feel free to try and provide us with a single example of an "absolute
- ethic" since you are so certain they exist.
- Be prepared to be laughed at when it turns out to be not-so absolute.
-
- --
- Mark Cochran merlin@eddie.ee.vt.edu
- These are the views of my employer, your employer, your government, the
- Church of your choice, and the Ghost of Elvis. So there.
- Member, T.S.A.K.C.
-