Re: virus: bad boys, bad boys, whatcha gonna do?

Nathaniel Hall (natehall@WORLDNET.ATT.NET)
Fri, 31 Jul 1998 19:19:58 -0600

Robin Faichney wrote:
>
> Hope Tim doesn't mind me jumping in here.
>
> Standing up for what you think is right, and attributing
> the actions of your opponent to a moral weakness on their
> part, are entirely different things.
> tha
> Moral judgements are always a substitute for understanding.
> To judge someone as morally wrong, is factually wrong. To
> cling to a moral judgement is to cling to a delusion, and
> therefore to prepare the way for your own defeat.
> --
> Robin

So there is no right or wrong then? I have to hold one of Hitler's
thugs as morally equivalent to the hero who saves someone's children by
pulling them out of a fire because if were to make a judgment like
"the hero is morally better than Hitler's thug" I'm clinging to a
delusion? Moral decisions can be based on facts and furthermore only
those moral judgments based on facts are any good! If following what you
believe to be the truth and what you think is right leads to defeat than
I rather be defeated than stand around and see the world as some
amorphous blob of gray!

Nate Hall