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Date: Mon Dec 06 2004 - 06:51:26 GMT
Hello Platt:
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From: "Platt Holden" <pholden@sc.rr.com>
To: <moq_discuss@moq.org>; <owner-moq_discuss@venus.co.uk>
Sent: Sunday, December 05, 2004 5:43 PM
Subject: Re: MD Is Morality Relative?
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> Shall I go on?
>
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> Will someone please explain why the word "absolute" is
considered to be anathema?
>
> Platt
mel:
For a long while I have been bothered by the
realization of morality in the unfolding of history.
So called "absolute authority" seems to behave
quite relatively and in doing so to self-undermine.
Church history (any church) is a good example.
After reading MoQ and considering that a church
is a complex of several levels it becamo clearer.
The APPLICATION of morality is relative and most
of the PRONOUNCEMENTS are about the social
or cultural.
The only distilllation that seems to make sense
to me as "absolutish" is something like this:
"Actions of deliberate harmful degradation,
that ring in the conscience,
taken,
when an alternative exist,
ARE WRONG."
It is still an evolving interpretaton of
what seems right to me.
[The reply I made to MSH/Chomsky
was full of several examples of such
emotionally satisfying but immoral
replies. I stooped to the level I found,
displaying a typical weak human character.]
thanks--mel
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