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   Message 5,810 of 6,487   
   Chris Ahlstrom to Jerry Buchanan   
   Re: "Agree to disagree"   
   21 Nov 25 16:41:51   
   
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   From: OFeem1987@teleworm.us   
      
   Jerry Buchanan wrote this post by blinking in Morse code:   
      
   > On 11/21/2025 12:10 PM, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:   
   >> jojo wrote this post by blinking in Morse code:   
   >>   
   >>> Clave wrote:   
   >>>> "Agree to disagree" is reserved for things like "Pink Floyd is   
   >>>> better than Led Zeppelin." *Not* racism, homophobia, sexism.   
   >>>> *Not* basic human decency. *Not* human rights.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> *Not* the right to be treated equally regardless of race,   
   >>>> religion, color, creed or sexual orientation.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> We do not have a difference of opinion on those. We have a   
   >>>> difference in morality. Those who do not oppose the "isms" and   
   >>>> who do not support basic human decency and human rights have no   
   >>>> morality.   
   >>>   
   >>> morality is a spectrum.   
   >>   
   >> An absorption spectrum or an emission spectrum?   
   >   
   > Morality does not occur along any kind of spectrum. It's binary.   
      
   Well, consider this, that "morals" have differed quite markedly   
   between societies. So let us posit that actions are a form of   
   light that include all actions. An absorption spectrum of morality   
   would mean that the actions that come to you exclude actions   
   absorbed along the way to you. For example, censorship or other   
   prohibitions.   
      
   On the other hand, an emission spectrum of morality would pass   
   along only permitted actions.   
      
   Everything was either “absolutely compulsory” or “strictly   
   forbidden under pain of expulsion”   
      
   Everything which is not forbidden is compulsory.   
      
   Everything not forbidden is compulsory.   
      
   Everything is either compulsory or forbidden.   
      
   Everything which is not compulsory is forbidden.   
      
   Everything is either forbidden or compulsory.   
      
   1940 July: Anything not compulsory was forbidden.   
      
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