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   From: jamesd@echeque.com   
      
   Immortalist wrote:   
   > > > A universal morality is like any other subject in   
   > > > that it has conditions which must be met before we   
   > > > can consider the condition of being universal as   
   > > > satisfied.   
   > > >   
      
   Michael Price wrote:   
   > >   Well no, if that were true they would not be   
   > >   universal.   
      
   Immortalist wrote:   
   > Then you are saying that there are no necessary   
   > conditions for something to be universal of   
   > particular?   
      
   You have been reduced to gibberish.   
      
   Your universal moral rules make prescriptions that   
   are obviously immoral in particular cases, realistic and   
   common particular cases.  Therefore they are not   
   universal. If they were strictly universal, they would   
   apply to all cases.  If they were universal in a   
   somewhat more relaxed sense, they would apply to all   
   common and typical cases that reflect the ordinary human   
   condition. But they do not.   
      
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   We have the right to defend ourselves and our property, because   
   of the kind of animals that we are. True law derives from this   
   right, not from the arbitrary power of the omnipotent state.   
      
   http://www.jim.com/      James A. Donald   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)