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From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen)
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Subject: Re: The Emperor's New Clothes
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Date: Thu, 25-Jul-85 18:53:19 EDT
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>>... if you're going to base a moral absolute on Human
>>Nature, you need some justification, some psychological theory that gets you
>>from human nature to this principle.  Rich hasn't shown any. [WINGATE]

> Exactly my opinion. [HUYBENSZ]

Who says you have to get from ANYWHERE to this principle, let alone
specifically from "human nature"?  So-called human nature has nothing to do
with the principle involved.  Whom do you have to justify this principle to?

>>Mike's position, however, requires assent to the notion that the tendency to
>>desire continuation of the species should not be fought.  But then, it isn't
>>really proper to try to persuade others of the resulting ethical system.  It
>>ceases to have anything but personal proscriptive power.

> I don't understand your ideas of why my position requires any sort of assent.

Me neither.

> I guess that's why Paul Dubois was assailing Rosen instead.

Methinks Paul is "assailing" me because the only answer he can come up with
to such "obvious" statements is "PRO-FOUND!"
-- 
Life is complex.  It has real and imaginary parts.
					Rich Rosen  ihnp4!pyuxd!rlr