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- From: russ@wpg.com (Russell Lawrence)
- Subject: Re: X% unethical [was Re: why hunting is unethical]
- Message-ID: <C182GB.J64@wpg.com>
- Organization: WP Group
- References: <C16z25.LDr@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 21:02:35 GMT
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- From article <C16z25.LDr@ccu.umanitoba.ca>, by ens@ccu.umanitoba.ca ():
- > (Russell Lawrence) writes:
- >>(Rich Young):
- >
- >>>This shows that hat-wearing is stupid and expensive, but it's not
- >>>morally "wrong" until you have a consensus.
- >
- >>If you're going to reserve the word "wrong" to designate actions
- >>that violate widely-held opinions about proper conduct, which in
- >>themselves may be fallacious, please tell me the adjective that
- >>you'll allow me to use to specify actions that are stupid,
- >>costly, painful, etc, etc.
- >
- > Does something have to be all three to be wrong? Rape is not expensive,
- > but certainly wrong.
-
- Would you volunteer to pay the medical and recovery bills of a woman
- who was raped in New Orleans a week or so ago?
-
- > Then if 2 out of 3 is enough, skiing is costly
- > and painful (at least the way I do it). So is hiring a personal
- > trainer to help you get in shape. Matter of fact, that's stupid too.
- > But wrong? Nah. Face it. The correlation is pretty weak.
-
- Skiing and pain are not synonomous concepts. Have you ever known
- a skiier who skied because he enjoyed pain?
-
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- Russell Lawrence, WP Group, New Orleans (504) 443-5000
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