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April 6th, 2005, 04:20 AM
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Your looking for absolutes and it doesn't work that way
But if something were independent of human perception, wouldn't that make it absolute by definition?
To be slightly more specific...an action cannot be either moral nor immoral in and of itself...it is basically the difference between a selfless act and a self-serving act
So it is the intent rather than either the action or the outcome that determines the morality of a situation?
If I aim to shoot a child out of evil, yet instead a bank robber is running in the path of the bullet and I inadvertantly stop him, is that good or evil? If I try top run over a good man in my car, but an evil man tackles him and allows the good man to flee, resulting in me running over the evil man, is that good or evil?
if I kill you out of malice or greed that would be wrong...however if I kill you to save you from a more horrible fate ( everlasting ignorance, for example ) that would not be wrong.
How do you decide whether someone will face a more horrible fate? What is the criteria for this? Everlasting ignorance may be bad, but shirking from intellectual responsibility is no better.
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