Re: virus: Re: morality

sodom (Sodom@ma.ultranet.com)
Tue, 04 Aug 1998 10:19:28 -0400


Nathaniel Hall wrote:

> sodom wrote:
> "I don't think anyone would suggest that morals are objective, but they
> are not
> intended to be objective."
>
> I suggest that morality is objective! Furthermore it looks like you do
> to:
>
> 'Morality is not necessarily based in a view of "what God wants"; it
> doesn't have to derive from religion or from anything not verifiable, it
> can exist in an observable place outside of memetic transfer.'
>

but I didnt write that part!! I agree with the first part about where morals
dont need to come from, but the last part I dont really understand. What is
"an observable place outside of memetic transfer"???

Morals seem to me to be a lot like faith. Somewhere there is a leap to a
hovering foundation, upon which the rest is built.

> That not only makes it objective but objective and knowable!
>
> Nate H.
>
> I have seen the light and it's Sodom shining this time!

Sodom
Bill Roh

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