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|    Chris Ahlstrom to Jerry Buchanan    |
|    Re: "Agree to disagree"    |
|    21 Nov 25 16:41:51    |
      XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.atheism, alt.fun       XPost: alt.politics.democrats.d, talk.politics.guns       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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