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To: Protagoras

> Many murders result in gain for the murder.

Did I say otherwise? No. Read it again: I said it increases risk.

> Were individual Nazis at great risk for murdering?

Actaully, yes. You bust into someone's home with murder on your mind, and whether you're backed up by a couple of thugs or by a batallion of Waffen SS the chance the home owner's gonna blast you in the face with a shotgun is higher than if you decided to stay in bed that day.

> Wrong thread for that opinion.

The topic had drifted to morality. The evolution of morality is thus relevant.

> Liberals love situational ethics too.

So do conservatives. I don't happen to have a problem with US spies stealing documents from the Iranian nuclear program, for example. Do you?

> Impossible to tell what this comment means.

No, it's not. Read it in context. Then read the Old Testament. Murder and rape were hunky-dory so long as those doing it claimed to have God on their side.


118 posted on 01/26/2005 11:00:38 AM PST by orionblamblam
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To: orionblamblam
"Did I say otherwise? No. Read it again: I said it increases risk."

Nope. Committing such acts greatly increases the risk to yourself and your potential progeny, at no gain.

You stand corrected.

173 posted on 01/26/2005 11:24:27 AM PST by Protagoras (No one is fit to be a master and no one deserves to be a slave. GWB 1-20-05)
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