[MD] Flying Spagetti Monsters

[ian glendinning]

Yes Platt, but your definition of evil is therefore entirely
subjective - from the perspective of the target (the germ in your
example). You seem not to acknowledge any relative ranking of morals
beyond that perspective ... Oh look, you even said it yourself.

[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."

There is sufficiently complexity in the Hiroshima example, to make the
morality debatable. There is clearly a valid element of "ruthless
moral force", but the fact that you (ie you personally, subjectively)
see that as the end of the story is hardly the final word, is it ?
Arlo (and others) have given you all the other mitigating issues about
"how" the act of dropping the bomb was arrived at. You conveniently
ignore these, or rhetorically twist anyone else's opinion on the
matters.

A "right" to use biological / physial force is one thing. The "right
way" to use it socially and intellectually is another.

I really have no interest in debating these cases with you, merely in
pointing out that your argumentation is an ignorant fraud.

Ian


On 9/26/06, pholden at davtv.com <pholden at davtv.com> wrote:
> Quoting ian glendinning <psybertron at gmail.com>:
>
> > Hey Platt,
> >
> > No problem meeting force with force, or evil with force, whatever, but
> > I would make a distinction between (ruthless) moral force and evil
> > (and I'm sure you woud too).
> >
> > A Doctor destroying a virus is hardly "evil" is he ?
>
> To the germ, yes. As for making a distinction between ruthless moral force and
> evil I guess it depends on whose side you are on. Some think dropping the A-
> bomb to end World War II was evil, and I'm sure a lot of Japanese thought so
> too. But I think it was ruthless moral force.
>
> Platt
>
>
>
>
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