[MD] tiny skull

[MarshaV]

At 05:01 PM 11/20/2006, you wrote:
>Quoting MarshaV <marshalz at charter.net>:
>
> > At 09:56 AM 11/20/2006, you wrote:
> > >Quoting Peter Corteen <psigenics at googlemail.com>:
> > >
> > > > 'Do as you please' is what everyone does anyhow; some people 
> may think they
> > > > live by some other moral code which they have consciously 
> adopted (such as
> > > > 'turn the other cheek') but in actuality at the moment of decision they
> > > > always do as they please.
> > >
> > >Peter:
> > >
> > >Would you acknowledge a moral difference between Ghandi doing as he
> > >pleases and a suicide bomber doing as she pleases? If so, what's the
> > >basis for the difference?
> >
> >
> > Platt & Peter,
> >
> > Sorry to intrude, but your questions seems too general.  Ghandi lead
> > a rebellion based on peace, but people were killed.  We know nothing
> > about the suicide bomber, or her mission.
>
>Are you suggesting there's no moral difference between what Ghandi did and
>what a suicide bomber did? After all, Nazis considered their motives moral.
>What is the old saying? "The road to hell is paved with good intentions."
>
>Platt


I'm not confronted with Ghandi, a suicide bomber and Nazis.  I'm 
looking at words. Analogues.  Symbols.  You haven't defined the 
hypothetical with enough information to consider the problem.  The 
old saying, "The road to hell is paved with good intentions.", is no 
more true than the sentence, "The road to heaven is paved with bad 
intentions.".


Marsha