Re: ICR and its slurs
Russell Stewart (diamond@rt66.com)
Mon, 26 May 1997 18:04:58 -0600At 10:15 AM 5/26/97 -0700, you wrote:
>Russell Stewart wrote:
>
>Jim Wrote:
>> >I would be a profoundly different person. Remember
>> >Dostoevsky's dictum: "If God does not exist, then anything is permissible."
>>
>> If you believe that, then you are a truly sick person, and I hope you get
>> some help. I, for one, do not believe in God, and I don't believe that
"anything
>> is permissible". And if your morality is dependent on the existence of God,
>> then I can say with absolute certainty that my morality is far stronger than
>> yours.
>
>On what basis do you conclude that Jim would be a "truly sick person" if
>he believes the quote? On your personal subjective system of emphatic
>morality?
Yes. However, it's a "subjective system of emphatic morality" that the vast
majority of people alive happen to agree with, so I feel fairly secure in
it.
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