[extropy-chat] I keep asking myself...

[Russell Wallace]

On 4/6/06, Al Brooks <kerry_prez at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> I mean to say there is a grain of truth in Samantha's
> position because truth is subjective, everyone wants
> their version of a comprehensive morality to prevail.


Even if not all of us are willing to start nuclear war over it :P

it's merely likes & dislikes masquerading as
> morality-- perhaps it's called situational ethics?
> Whatever the case may be I don't accept your or
> Samantha's morality any more than you accept mine.
> Abusing sentient beings is a sin??
> Then before we do anything else in politics, let us
> have the public school system dismantled, or failing
> that, let's put bars on school windows and have the
> students wear striped uniforms.
>

Or at least let's undertake drastic reforms in the education system. What,
did you think I'd say it's fine the way it is and thereby be inconsistent
with my libertarian philosophy? :)
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