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To: JohnnyM
["since *you're* the one with the morality based on the same standard as that of the terrorists"]

I disagree wholeheartedly.

How so? You have stated that the standard of your morality is "God". So do the Muslim terrorists.

I have previously asked you to ponder that, and its implications. It does not appear that you have done so.

By right, I mean the correct answer or, in our case, the correct morality, which of course implies an objective source to determine rightness or wrongness.

You're just substituting one vague word for another. What does it mean, to you, for a morality to be "correct"?

I beleive this source to be the God of the Bible.

The Muslim terrorists believe it to be the God of the Koran. You say po-tay-to, they say po-tah-to...

How then, is this an "objective source" for morality? Isn't it just relative after all? Relative to which holy book or which holy man one chooses to follow?

If we say there is not an objective source, than my morality, or the morality of the terrorist, has just as much value as yours.

Wrong.

Rightness and wrongness is then defined by sticking to the principles of your brand of morality.

Not necessarily.

So you would be immoral if you practiced things which go against your morality. Conversely, a terrorist would be a moral person by killing the infidel, because he is living in accordance with his morality.

That's one way to look at it, I suppose.

713 posted on 12/13/2005 2:48:25 PM PST by Ichneumon
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To: Ichneumon
"Wrong"

On what scale are you basing this on? Why is it wrong and yours right?

JM
714 posted on 12/13/2005 2:50:31 PM PST by JohnnyM
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To: Ichneumon
what gives your morality more value than the morality of the terrorists?

JM
718 posted on 12/13/2005 2:59:18 PM PST by JohnnyM
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To: Ichneumon

Seems some just prefer to choose sides, irrespective of any morality that may apply to all people. Religion (under this interpretation) becomes a prescription for perpetual war. People do things because their religion requires it, not because of any good or evil involved.


799 posted on 12/13/2005 6:22:30 PM PST by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch ist der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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