07-02-2003 04:07									#31
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Caspar Weinburger is a tool...

	07-02-2003 04:21									#32
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quote: Originally posted by Azazel "al-Shattab " I think it's Shat-al-Arab

That's probably right — after all, it's in your neck of the woods, roughly. And I bet if I dropped that name in front of my co-workers, they'd just look at me blankly. Ha! I'm superior to them all!

Gatekeeper

	07-02-2003 04:37									#33
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quote: That's probably right — after all, it's in your neck of the woods, roughly.

yeah, an hour in supersonic multi-role fighter and I am there.


Generally.... I think it's time for a new morals thread.

	07-02-2003 05:40									#34
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quote: A moral has authority only because people with authority enforce the moral.

Which in democratic (republican) countries, the authority is held to represent the 50% + 1 of the people. In a dictatorship the dictator is at least 50% + 1, or else he'd be gone.

The 'authority' is usually what a majority of people say it is (at least publically) in society. That is what you are ignoring.

quote: So, Imran, slavery was presumably OK in a society where 51% of the citizens agreed with it, correct?

Yep.

	07-02-2003 06:59									#35
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I thought you said that it was moral if the future thinks so. Make up your mind.

Oops, I forgot who I was talking to-- forget that last sentence.