From: KPJ (kpj@sics.se)
Date: Mon Jan 11 1999 - 09:28:40 MST
It appears as if Samael <Samael@dial.pipex.com> wrote:
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|Can you tell me how I can, in good faith, follow a moral code when I believe
|there is no logical reason to do so?
|Especially when nobody has yet even managed to come up with a logical
|objection to rape (which pretty much everyone on the planet admits is an
|abbhorence (sic)).
I suggest that the meme rules of conduct be commutative.
Commutativity: If the rule is "X shall not perform act P on Y"
then also the rule "Y shall not perform act P on X" shall hold.
Simply put: "A rule apply to all in the same manner."
If you postulate this basic rule of commutativity
then you would conclude:
"If X does not want Y to perfom act P on X
then X should avoid to perform act P on Y."
[e.g. to avoid retaliation]
Simply put: "Do not to others what you do not wish them do to you."
Avoid microwaving children. Others may dislike it and microwave you in turn.
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