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   From: notgenx32@yahoo.com   
      
   On 11/21/2025 12:23 PM, jojo wrote:   
   > Jerry Buchanan wrote:   
   >> On 11/21/2025 12:07 PM, jojo wrote:   
   >>> Jerry Buchanan wrote:   
   >>>> On 11/21/2025 11:19 AM, jojo wrote:   
   >>>>> Jerry Buchanan wrote:   
   >>>>>> On 11/21/2025 10:57 AM, jojo wrote:   
   >>>>>>> Clave wrote:   
   >>>>>>>> If a storm breaks off a tree limb, and the limb hits the corner of   
   your   
   >>>>>>>> roof and takes off some of the eave and gutter, that's bad. If the   
   limb   
   >>>>>>>> crashes entirely through your roof and lands in the living room,   
   that's   
   >>>>>>>> worse. Goodness and badness – as practical consequences, not   
   morality —   
   >>>>>>>> occur along a spectrum. If you get an estimate for an automotive   
   repair   
   >>>>>>>> of $500, and it only ends up costing you $400, that's good. If it only   
   >>>>>>>> ends up costing you $200, that's better, i.e. "more good."   
   >>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>> Morality is not like that. If you steal one tool (rake, shovel) from   
   the   
   >>>>>>>> side of your neighbor's house, that's wrong. If you steal all the   
   tools,   
   >>>>>>>> that's wrong, and it is not "more wrong" than stealing only one.   
   >>>>>>>> Stealing all of them is a worse *practical* outcome for the neighbor,   
   >>>>>>>> but either action is just wrong.   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> so you're saying mortality is independent of goodness or badness?   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> I'm not saying anything about mortality, idiot.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> You attempted to equivocate on goodness/badness. I stopped you.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> so it is dependent on goodness and badness?   
   >>>>   
   >>>> You're attempting to equivocate again. It won't work again.   
   >>>   
   >>> i see, too bad.. or good??   
   >>   
   >> You don't see that your equivocation game collapsed.   
   >   
   > so was that a good thing or a bad thing?   
      
   It's a very good (high quality) thing.   
      
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