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alatar · 03-10-2006, 09:16 PM

Interesting.

Just a quick comment on the "Blue Cross" as quoted by davem. Surely thoug shall not steal...

Unless, of course, thou children are starving.

My point is that, morality, like some physical laws of the universe, is relative.

davem · 03-11-2006, 03:09 AM

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Originally Posted by alatar

Interesting.

Just a quick comment on the "Blue Cross" as quoted by davem. Surely thoug shall not steal...

Unless, of course, thou children are starving.

My point is that, morality, like some physical laws of the universe, is relative.

I don't know that Moral values are 'relative'. If your children are starving that is a sure sign that you are living in an immoral society. In such a case I don't think that taking what you need, if there was no other way, would be 'stealing' as such (one could argue that the real 'thieves' were the ones who kept the food from your children & that you were taking what you had a right to).

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