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14039
Thank you for granting me admission to your stopic group. One dillema I am trying to resolve right now ( hopefully this will not offend you) is this. I happen...
toroloki
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Dec 5, 2006
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14040
... This is really two questions: the first is when it is permissable to use violence; the second is what our attitude should be towards other people. The...
Robin Turner
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Dec 5, 2006
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14041
... <snip> ... You said "Thus there is no qualitative difference between you and me, and pimps and pushers." If you are a slave to brain chemical rewards, like...
mattomoran
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Dec 5, 2006
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14042
... Interesting. I'm curious as to whether they felt good about themselves per se and the bullying was incidental, or they felt good about themselves _because_...
Robin Turner
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Dec 5, 2006
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14043
toroloki <toroloki@...> wrote: ... are there any guidelines anyone can give me , which would justify the use of physical...
Uncle Fester
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Dec 5, 2006
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14044
"....believe that it is our duty to resist evil. ... Seams reasnable to use force in self defence, the bounds OF self defence might be somewhat elastic (is it...
redkittyspaw
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Dec 6, 2006
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14045
Interesting that the Forum should be discussing nonviolence and nonviolence, just as I happen to be doing a little research on Gandhi. I found this a...
jan.garrett
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Dec 6, 2006
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14046
There has been some discussion recently about whether some people are so low on the moral totem pole as to be *qualitatively* inferior to most people,...
jan.garrett
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Dec 6, 2006
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14047
I've made a couple corrections: Interesting that the Forum should be discussing nonviolence and violence, just as I happen to be doing a little research on...
jan.garrett
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Dec 6, 2006
3:30 am
14048
Thanks Jan, that was an interesting article. My own take on "inherent worth and dignity" is that from a Stoic perspective, everything (not just people) has...
Robin Turner
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Dec 6, 2006
10:04 am
14049
About a week ago I saw Richard Dawkins (the evolutionist who in his recent book is so proud that he has disproved the existence of God) on TV saying: ...
Keith Seddon
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Dec 6, 2006
4:11 pm
14050
Keith, et al: I have seen the identical quote, as well as a version that uses "ethics" instead of "philosophy" attributed to biologist Steve Jones. Dawkins may...
Grant Sterling
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Dec 6, 2006
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Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris are polemicists to be sure. But to the lay person who thinks of themself attempting to lead a somewhat rational existence (I...
Uncle Fester
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Dec 6, 2006
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Ah-ha. I can answer my own query... After a lot of searching, I have found: at http://members.tripod.com/~hswc_1/quotes-2.html Steve Jones -- This is the...
Keith Seddon
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Dec 7, 2006
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14053
Hello Mark, Thanks for your response. <<<What is it with "God" that makes people want to blow themselves up and kill as many civilians as possible in the...
Keith Seddon
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Dec 7, 2006
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14054
Actually, Robin, rather than dignitas being a translation of an important Greek term, it is one of those Latin words that resonated uniquely with power and...
jan.garrett
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Dec 7, 2006
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14055
... I think we can point to some ideas within religion that make indiscriminate killing more likely, but it's a tenuous connection, as shown by the recent ...
Robin Turner
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Dec 7, 2006
11:16 am
14056
... I agree with Keith--nothing. Any more than there being something about soccer [football, if you prefer] that makes people act like hooligans. ... This is...
Grant Sterling
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Dec 7, 2006
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14057
Robin wrote: ______________________ I think we can point to some ideas within religion that make indiscriminate killing more likely, but it's a tenuous...
Steve Marquis
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Dec 7, 2006
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14058
Dear Keith, et al: Firstly, in order to observe the protocol against long posts, I have broken this response into three parts. As a theology student and...
stillcircle
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Dec 7, 2006
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14059
(continued from Part I) In a sense, I can understand the rabidness of Dawkins' claims and the manner in which he asserts same; he is, afterall, really just the...
stillcircle
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Dec 7, 2006
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14060
(continued from Part II) Of course, many people who believe in God have reacted hysterically and stupidly to the revelations of science. But that is because ...
stillcircle
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Dec 7, 2006
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14061
... "Time"? (Sorry, can't do diacritics in e-mail.) Robin...
Robin Turner
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Dec 7, 2006
10:33 pm
14062
I haven't spoken up in awhile, partly due to lack of time and partly due to having nothing to say, but I think it's well worth saying that Richard Dawkins is,...
cherokee_purple
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Dec 7, 2006
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14063
... Unfortunately if you want to make the transition from being an ordinary academic to a pop-science superstar (or even a big player in the lecture tour...
Robin Turner
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Dec 7, 2006
11:32 pm
14064
OK, maybe "time" (eta, or long e at the end of the word) is within the same range. In most translations, say, of Aristotle and company, "time" is rendered...
jan.garrett
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Dec 8, 2006
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14065
... Any recommendations on Steven Pinker books? I really enjoyed The Moral Animal by Robert Wright as an evolutionary psychology intro. Thanks, Matt...
mattomoran
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Dec 8, 2006
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14066
In her lengthy glossary at the end of The First Man in Rome (New York: Wm Morrow and Co, 1990), Colleen McCullough, who was as thoroughly immersed in the...
jan.garrett
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Dec 8, 2006
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14067
Talk about 180 degrees. Dignitas has gone from something that some people might have, but only if they were born in a position to achieve it. And its growth...
Uncle Fester
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Dec 8, 2006
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14068
"....lack of time and partly ... that ... camp ... Heard him on the radio- he came across rather like my brother who has Asperbergers- grumpy and indignat at...
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