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- Civis
- Husband, father, veteran and ENTP. If you were king, you would have a duty to rule for the common good. In order to rule for the common good, you would need to know what works and what doesn't work. To know this you would need to know a little bit about government, some history, science, psychology, theology, religion et al. If "we the people" rule, we have a similar duty to our country. My handle is "Civis", because I take citizenship seriously.
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It seems to me that the argument against torture is cut and dried: a) it is evil to subvert the will of another human being; and b) it is not permissable to do evil so that good may result. This eliminates torture from the realm of moral acts. Period.
Hey Rodak,
Yeah, you *think* it would be that cut and dried. People just want to justify it, I guess.
Maureen
Maureen--
Which is why we don't look to people for a moral standard.
Then who do you look to for a moral standard?
Maureen
Maureen--
I realized sometime after I posted that comment that I should have put "people" in scare quotes.
Obviously, we look to whatever moral authorities we accept as such, unless a moral point is expressly state in divine revelation. Those moral authorities are, of course, people; but they aren't usually "just plain folks."
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