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From: pkr@maddog.sgi.com (Phil Ronzone)
Newsgroups: alt.individualism
Subject: Re: Objectivism as religion
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Date: 16 Jan 90 19:27:14 GMT
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In article <CMM.0.88.632464043.bfu@grim.uio.no> Thomas Gramstad <bfu> writes:
>About the question of aliens who had "supra-volition" and "supra-rationality"
>and decided that since humans don't have these, they could eat, kill etc.
>do anything they want with human beings (some topic, yeah) --
>
>The point here is a misconception about rights.  A person's rights are not
>defined relative to other beings.  They are conditions of existence for the
>being in question and they are, within that context, absolute.  The aliens
>might have the power to do anything they wanted to do with human beings,
>but they wouldn't have the right to do it.  Might does not make right.



Yeag - THAT's a contradiction I've been unsuccessfully wrestling with for
a long time.

It may NOT be immoral for a collective hive mind to much Earthlings.

Yet it would be WRONG.

The collision between morality and right/wrong needs to be removed.


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