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You ask:
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Suppose I present you with two statements:
1. To rob is good
2. To rob is bad
How do you judge the truth of each statement?
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I would not judge the truth-values until I was told the precise meaning of the terms being employed.
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Aiwendil, here you lose me.
Words mean what they mean.
I suppose one could postulate as many exceptions to the rule "to rob is bad" as one could "to kill is bad." And yes, I will argue *for* the concept of a Just War even though I think Killing is bad. (I bring this up **only** for an example , not to start another entire side-debate... egads.
) So, okay, I'll argue for Just War even while I state that Killing is bad. Call me conflicted. But I still don't want anybody to rob me and I don't want anybody to kill me either.
Killing is bad; having to do it for an overwhelming Reason doesn't make it Good. Same with robbing.
Nor do I see that Aragorn (returning to Tolkien for just a moment) would agree with you. How does it go? "Good and evil have not changed, nor are they one thing among men and another among elves and dwarves."
Good is good.