[MD] Flying Spagetti Monsters

[Arlo Bensinger]

[Platt to Ben]
There are no moral standards I have a duty to consider other than my own. 
Or so it would seem from Arlo's premise.

[Arlo]
And what is good, and what is not good, I suppose we DO need to ask others 
to tell us these things. Or so it would seem from Platt's premise. The 
question is, who should we ask? The "national consciousness"? If so, does 
that mean Bush IS acting immorally if the majority are against the war? Or 
to the state's decree? If so, does that mean anything the state does is 
"moral", just because it is "ours"? Was slavery "moral" before 1865? If we 
have a "duty to the state", does that mean opposing slavery was "wrong"?