virus: morality
Nathaniel Hall (natehall@WORLDNET.ATT.NET)
Tue, 04 Aug 1998 13:32:48 -0600
sodom wrote:
>
> 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
>
> Wiggiling like mad, making pretty lights on the walls and ceilings
Whoops! I thought you did write that. My mistake. But picking values
from real life is hardly an act of faith. (Morality is the sum total of
those values)
Nate