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Date:      Mon, 9 Sep 2002 23:16:09 -0400
From:      Joshua Lee <yid@softhome.net>
To:        "Neal E. Westfall" <nwestfal@directvinternet.com>
Cc:        keramida@ceid.upatras.gr, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Why did evolution fail?
Message-ID:  <20020909231609.68ac5883.yid@softhome.net>
In-Reply-To: <20020906181354.C44831-100000@Tolstoy.home.lan>
References:  <20020907002242.GC15779@hades.hell.gr> <20020906181354.C44831-100000@Tolstoy.home.lan>

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On Fri, 6 Sep 2002 18:30:52 -0700 (PDT)
"Neal E. Westfall" <nwestfal@directvinternet.com> wrote:

> Correction.  Logic and ethics are meaningless without objective
> standards, and objective standards are impossible without appealing
> to something, well, *objective*.  "Objective" means that it comes to
> you from the outside, externally, i.e. "not subjective".  So

No, "objective" can operate according to natural law without having to
appeal to an external source. e.g. Kantian ethics.

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