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From: oconnor@sunset.steinmetz (Dennis M. O'Connor)
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Subject: Re: The Ethics of Killing
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Date: 11 Feb 88 16:59:56 GMT
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An article by morrow@topaz.rutgers.edu (John Morrow) says:
:=@ In article <1603@imagen.UUCP> isaak@imagen.UUCP (Mark Isaak) writes:
:=@ > Am I missing something in your argument, or are you begging the question?
:=@  [...]
:=@ The principle at work here is the one that killing an innocent person
:=@ is wrong because it is.  This is based on the premise that SOME MORAL
:=@ VALUES ARE ABSOLUTE BECAUSE THEY ARE.  
:=@  [...]
:=@ What's wrong with taking property and what's wrong with killing?  THEY
:=@ ARE JUST WRONG.
:=@  [...]
:=@ >Mark Isaak    			UUCP: {decwrl,sun}!imagen!isaak
:=@ 
:=@ John Morrow    These are my opinions (no one else seems to want them...)

So as we see, John Morron is INDEED begging the question, and is too
dense to realize it. If widdle Jonny Morwhon want to tink tings
are wong because dey is wong, fine. But it is NOT productive input
to a philosophical argument, and hasn't been since Plato.

Go away, John-boy, and take a course in logic and argument, if you are old
enough to enroll in college courses. Then come back.

And quit drooling on yourself.

--
	Dennis O'Connor 	oconnor@sunset.steinmetz.UUCP ??
				ARPA: OCONNORDM@ge-crd.arpa
    "Nuclear War is NOT the worst thing people can do to this planet."