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Date:      Tue, 10 Sep 2002 09:55:46 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Neal E. Westfall" <nwestfal@directvinternet.com>
To:        Joshua Lee <yid@softhome.net>
Cc:        keramida@ceid.upatras.gr, <chat@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Why did evolution fail?
Message-ID:  <20020910095307.X62741-100000@Tolstoy.home.lan>
In-Reply-To: <20020909231609.68ac5883.yid@softhome.net>

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On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, Joshua Lee wrote:

> 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.

ROFL.  You think Kantian ethics are objective?  BTW, please explain how
you get ethics from "natural law".  That's a joke, right?


Neal



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