From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Sun Nov 24 2002 - 10:42:57 MST
gts writes
> > gts writes
> >
> >> To say that, in your opinion, people "ought not"
> >> be enslaved is to make a moral judgment that
> >> slavery is wrong and freedom is right.
> >
> > I can see how you might at first think that it is
> > the same thing. For one thing, you may be
> > tempted to define it as such. Such a course is
> > misguided...
>
> If you think people ought to be treated one way and
> not another way with respect their freedoms and
> liberties then you have a moral belief about freedom,
> Lee. It's nothing to be ashamed of.
Okay, here was the *argument* I gave:
> This is all there is to rights. There is nothing mystical about their
> existence. We can agree to the existence of moral truths in the same way
> that we can agree to the existence of mathematical truths, and with the
> same kind of realist interpretations.
Oh. Okay. Majority rule determines truth, eh? Next,
you will find some things to be objectively beautiful,
because, after all, you will proceed exactly as you
do with your so-called "moral truths"---just get the
right people to agree!
Perhaps you should answer that point.
> > Bah. Are you ever bad at philosophy.
>
> Normally I ignore blatant ad hominum, but this comment
> is so way off the mark that I feel a need to address
> it.
I apologize for the put-down, whether or not it was an ad hominum [sic].
(The word you're after is spelled with an "e".)
Lee
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