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From: walker@oberon.UUCP (Mike Walker)
Newsgroups: net.philosophy
Subject: Re: What is morality anyways?
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Date: Tue, 1-Oct-85 02:56:12 EDT
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> [warack]
> Isn't morality a framework for deciding Good=Right=The-Thing-to-Do vs.
> Evil=Bad=Wrong=The-Thing-Not-to-Do?
> In an absolute sense, a moral system could be viewed as a mathematical
> function M from actions into the set {good, evil}.  A perfect moral system
> would map every action.  [I'm not suggesting that such a system exists.]
> 


Pardon my late posting but:
All actions do not have to be mapped into a set of good or evil.  Actions
can be said to moral or nonmoral in a larger sense.  That is they can belong
or not belong to the sphere of morality.  Whether or not I have diet pepsi
or diet coke is not a moral question (for me anyhow).

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Michael D. Walker (Mike)
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