[MD] Flying Spagetti Monsters

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Quoting "Laycock, Jos (OSPT)" <Jos.Laycock at OFFSOL.GSI.GOV.UK>:

> You seem to be championing the celebrity?

I champion individual accomplishments.

 
> These individuals were products of societies, all were creative whilst
> standing on the shoulders of others.
> Beethoven did not invent the chomatic scale, Rembrant was taught to paint in
> a school, and Einstein did not pluck his ideas out of thin air without
> extensive reference to existing literature.
> The renaissance period produced great art, The industrial revolution
> produced great thinkers.

Yes, all these individuals were born into a society and learned from it as does
everbody else. But their accomplishments were unique and of extremely high value
to society.

> Any and all constrains can be disobeyed and all may be subject to change.
> Be they inorganic, biological, social or intellectual. 
> Disobeying moral codes at all levels is imoral, we are free to make bad
> descisions of course but does being free to drink bleach, sleep with your
> sister, ignore a red light or belive that you are napoleon really have any
> great value. 
> Just because you can, doesn't mean that you should

You cannot escape from the fact that if you drink bleach you will get sick and
possibly die. That's biological reality. Sleeping with your sister is a personal 
choice as is running a red light. Believing you are Napoleon usually indicates
something is biologically wrong with the chemistry of your brain. There's
nothing you can do about the morality of the first and last biological values.
You can be punished for the middle two examples involving social values.





 
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