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New Cat's Eye

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Message 75 of 106 (661040)
05-01-2012 2:35 PM

Reply to: Message 60 by Greatest I am
04-29-2012 9:02 AM

Greatest I am writes:
If a man enters your home and rapes your wife, what will you do, offer your daughter for seconds.

your reply:
That might very well be the moral thing to do.

How would you justify your action to the court that would charge you with being an accessory to rape?

How would you explain such a (good) moral stance to your daughter?

Morality is always relative. You just gotta be creative in some cases:

Raper: "If I don't rape your daughter, then I'll push this button that will blow up the whole world."

In that case, the moral action would be saving the world by letting him rape your daughter.

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Message 78 of 106 (661136)
05-02-2012 1:56 PM

Reply to: Message 77 by Greatest I am
05-02-2012 1:52 PM

Correct but that was not the scenario given and Ringo did not add the caveat you did.

Its the same senario, I added the caveat because you asked for one.

We are dealing with a rapist. Not a potential mass murderer.

Those aren't mutually exclusive.

If we were, he would do the daughter that was given in the hope that he would not use the bomb. A poor gamble at best but one that a moral man would have to make.

In your opinion, but not necessarily in other's. Morality is still relative.

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Message 84 of 106 (661420)
05-05-2012 10:38 AM

Reply to: Message 81 by Greatest I am
05-04-2012 8:28 PM

"In your opinion, but not necessarily in other's. Morality is still relative."

That is what I have been saying all along.

Not when you're saying that hell is immoral.

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From a moral standpoint, to even create such a place would not be moral.

Or is that just "in your opinion"?

Its not that hard to imagine a moral hell, or daughter rape, or whatever other disgusting thing you want to type about, you're just going to have to be more creative.

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