[MD] tiny skull

[pholden at davtv.com]

> >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.".

My point is that actions, not intentions, comprise the moral order.

Platt
  




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