From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Thu Sep 20 2001 - 03:14:22 MDT
"J. R. Molloy" <jr@shasta.com> writes:
> Extropian principlesFrom: Smigrodzki, Rafal
> <<Precisely because a war is threatening to explode, moral principles are even
> more important to guide our behaviour when unrecoverable lives can much easier
> lost than in peacetime.>>
>
> Wrong. "Moral principles" are exactly what combatants hide behind to justify
> their grab for territory and resources. Morality derives from biology.
> See: http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/98apr/biomoral.htm
>
Not wrong and your point is irrelevant. What do you suggest should guide our
actions if not morals/ethics?
- samantha
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