RE: President Obama: Do you really love America?
February 26, 2015 at 8:22 pm
(This post was last modified: February 26, 2015 at 8:23 pm by DeistPaladin.)
(February 26, 2015 at 8:14 pm)abaris Wrote: Because it's intellectualistic blah blah from the top of the Ivory tower.No, it's the law. It's so much a no-brainer that every society I know of operates this way according to how they punish those who cause the death of another. That's not just academic. That's how it's practically applied in real life.
Quote:So morality or it's absence is totally irrelevant. It's the fundamental inanity of these discussions that make me angry.Sorry about that but it sounds like a different topic, one certainly worthy of discussion as well: what foreign policy works and what doesn't?
(February 26, 2015 at 8:22 pm)Chuck Wrote: The difference between morality and immorality is not relativism, but consistency. immorality is the opportunistic use of any standard of morality purely for one's own benefit.
Sorry, I'm not following. Can you please elaborate?
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"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
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