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Sacrificing our Moral Compasses
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RE: Sacrificing our Moral Compasses
June 19, 2014 at 3:40 pm
(June 19, 2014 at 3:39 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: Yes. So my disobeying would be me, or you, acting immorally from a position of perfect knowledge, where yours and my knowledge is imperfect.

An extreme request of a parent given the emotional bias. The reason the story has this extreme is to make a point.

Wow. Well I'm glad you came out and said it..

If God told you to kill your son...which would be a perfectly moral command to give...you would disobey him, and be the one in wrong.
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
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Sacrificing our Moral Compasses

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Sacrificing our Moral Compasses - by FatAndFaithless - June 17, 2014 at 3:01 pm
RE: Sacrificing our Moral Compasses - by John V - June 17, 2014 at 3:10 pm
RE: Sacrificing our Moral Compasses - by John V - June 17, 2014 at 3:30 pm
RE: Sacrificing our Moral Compasses - by John V - June 17, 2014 at 6:32 pm
RE: Sacrificing our Moral Compasses - by Jenny A - June 17, 2014 at 7:43 pm
RE: Sacrificing our Moral Compasses - by John V - June 19, 2014 at 10:22 am
RE: Sacrificing our Moral Compasses - by Bibliofagus - June 19, 2014 at 10:57 am
RE: Sacrificing our Moral Compasses - by Crossless1 - June 17, 2014 at 5:50 pm
RE: Sacrificing our Moral Compasses - by downbeatplumb - June 20, 2014 at 12:29 pm
Sacrificing our Moral Compasses - by Rampant.A.I. - June 17, 2014 at 3:40 pm
RE: Sacrificing our Moral Compasses - by ShaMan - June 17, 2014 at 3:43 pm
RE: Sacrificing our Moral Compasses - by laikashuman - June 17, 2014 at 5:32 pm
RE: Sacrificing our Moral Compasses - by ThePinsir - June 17, 2014 at 5:39 pm
RE: Sacrificing our Moral Compasses - by laikashuman - June 17, 2014 at 5:42 pm
RE: Sacrificing our Moral Compasses - by laikashuman - June 17, 2014 at 6:01 pm
RE: Sacrificing our Moral Compasses - by laikashuman - June 17, 2014 at 8:22 pm
Sacrificing our Moral Compasses - by Rampant.A.I. - June 19, 2014 at 10:57 am
RE: Sacrificing our Moral Compasses - by Wyrd of Gawd - June 19, 2014 at 11:14 am
RE: Sacrificing our Moral Compasses - by Thumpalumpacus - June 19, 2014 at 11:21 am
RE: Sacrificing our Moral Compasses - by John V - June 19, 2014 at 12:12 pm
RE: Sacrificing our Moral Compasses - by fr0d0 - June 19, 2014 at 11:32 am
RE: Sacrificing our Moral Compasses - by FatAndFaithless - June 19, 2014 at 11:34 am
RE: Sacrificing our Moral Compasses - by fr0d0 - June 19, 2014 at 11:43 am
RE: Sacrificing our Moral Compasses - by FatAndFaithless - June 19, 2014 at 11:44 am
RE: Sacrificing our Moral Compasses - by fr0d0 - June 19, 2014 at 11:48 am
RE: Sacrificing our Moral Compasses - by FatAndFaithless - June 19, 2014 at 11:50 am
RE: Sacrificing our Moral Compasses - by fr0d0 - June 19, 2014 at 2:22 pm
RE: Sacrificing our Moral Compasses - by Bad Wolf - June 19, 2014 at 12:11 pm
RE: Sacrificing our Moral Compasses - by fr0d0 - June 19, 2014 at 2:36 pm
RE: Sacrificing our Moral Compasses - by fr0d0 - June 19, 2014 at 2:42 pm
RE: Sacrificing our Moral Compasses - by fr0d0 - June 19, 2014 at 2:48 pm
RE: Sacrificing our Moral Compasses - by fr0d0 - June 19, 2014 at 2:55 pm
RE: Sacrificing our Moral Compasses - by John V - June 19, 2014 at 3:40 pm
RE: Sacrificing our Moral Compasses - by fr0d0 - June 19, 2014 at 3:02 pm
RE: Sacrificing our Moral Compasses - by fr0d0 - June 19, 2014 at 3:07 pm
RE: Sacrificing our Moral Compasses - by fr0d0 - June 19, 2014 at 3:09 pm
RE: Sacrificing our Moral Compasses - by fr0d0 - June 19, 2014 at 3:18 pm
RE: Sacrificing our Moral Compasses - by fr0d0 - June 19, 2014 at 3:24 pm
RE: Sacrificing our Moral Compasses - by fr0d0 - June 19, 2014 at 3:28 pm
RE: Sacrificing our Moral Compasses - by fr0d0 - June 19, 2014 at 3:34 pm
RE: Sacrificing our Moral Compasses - by fr0d0 - June 19, 2014 at 3:31 pm
RE: Sacrificing our Moral Compasses - by fr0d0 - June 19, 2014 at 3:39 pm
RE: Sacrificing our Moral Compasses - by FatAndFaithless - June 19, 2014 at 3:40 pm
RE: Sacrificing our Moral Compasses - by fr0d0 - June 19, 2014 at 3:54 pm
RE: Sacrificing our Moral Compasses - by fr0d0 - June 19, 2014 at 4:15 pm
RE: Sacrificing our Moral Compasses - by fr0d0 - June 20, 2014 at 6:07 pm
RE: Sacrificing our Moral Compasses - by MJ the Skeptical - June 20, 2014 at 11:02 pm
RE: Sacrificing our Moral Compasses - by fr0d0 - June 21, 2014 at 3:11 am
RE: Sacrificing our Moral Compasses - by fr0d0 - June 21, 2014 at 3:46 am
RE: Sacrificing our Moral Compasses - by Thumpalumpacus - June 21, 2014 at 8:19 am

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