Don Homuth wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 17:59:25 GMT, Roy Jose Lorr
> <mosestorah@no-spam> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> >Don Homuth wrote:
> >
> >> If your supposed
> >> Absolute Morality is supposed to function as a sort of benchmark, it
> >> fails in its application within minutes of first being considered.
> >
> >If you feel this way you should easily be able to present a
> >moral situation that is exempt from being judged against
> >Absolute Morality. I'd certainly be interested in seeing
> >such an example.
>
> 1. Thou shalt not steal.
>
> If you were starving, or say your kids were starving, would you
> "steal" fruit from a tree to satisfy the hunger, if you Knew you
> wouldn't be caught at it?
Whatever the reason for taking another's property, its stealing.
>
>
> 2. Thou shalt not bear false witness.
>
> If you came across a wounded soldier, a comrade in arms, terminally
> wounded and you knew s/he was going to die, would you tell him/her
> that they have Every chance of recovering, to ease their mind at the
> time? (Be careful with this one, unless you've had occasion to
> actually Do it. I have.)
Whatever the reason for lying against another, it is
bearing false witness.
From the way you posed the question I believe you don't know
what bearing false witness means in the context in which the
Commandment is given.
However, I'll answer in the spirit in which you asked the
question: I'd either say nothing or if pressed by the dying
individual, and I had no option other than to answer, I'd
tell the truth.
And, yes, I've witnessed the deaths of friends and foes alike.
>
>
> 3. Thou shalt not covet.
>
> If an acquaintance shows up with a Nice New Car -- the brand, model
> and color you've always wanted -- in your heart, would you not say to
> yourself that You wished you had it, rather than him? The prohibition
> is, after all, one of the Most Absolute of the XXCs, after all.
I might wish I had one like it but not at his expense.
>
>
> The idea of Absolute Morality must needs always be tempered by some
> Human Compassion at times. Good Judgement works better.
A fine human sentiment but one having no influence
on Absolute Morality.
--
The last stage of
utopian sentimentalism
is homicidal mania.
