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> I agree with your logic, but not your premise.  Morality is not
> necessarily subjective.   For instance, I know perfectly well
> that your morality *doesn't* allow mass murder.  In fact, I'll
> bet you'd have a hard time finding a mass murderer who thought
> his acts were moral.  Which is not the same as "acceptable",
> "defensible", or a host of other excuses.  Please don't confuse
> immoral with illegal or (mercy!) ill-mannered.

I'm not sure that I agree with this premise, even within a restricted
"universe."  First you assume that you know what a "mass murderer"
thinks but I doubt that is true.  Second, you seem to be neglecting
the fact that morality is cultural rather than hereditary.  (It is,
isn't it?)  And, third, *how* do you "know perfectly well" that
another's morals don't allow mass murder?

Your appear to be assuming, rather, a lot here.

> Morals are universal, and morals are for keeps.  Why the hell else
> even bother to have ethical principles?

Morals, in the abstract, *may* be universal but I would be surprised
if any particular set of morals, including yours or mine, were
universal.

> Now, if our ideas of what is moral
> clash, 

I'm afraid this strikes me as contradictory to what I understood you
to say earlier.  If these morals are universal, how can two
individuals "ideas of what is moral clash"?

> and you ask me what I'm going to do about it, that is
> another issue altogether.  Probably not much, but I certainly won't
> call a cop.  There are no Morals Police.
               ^^^^^ ^^^ ^^ ^^^^^^ ^^^^^^

Thank God, Fate or your favorite deity.

-- 
All opinions are mine alone...

Charlie Sorsby
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