From: Scot McSweeney-Roberts (newton_at_mcsweeney-roberts.co.uk)
Date: Thu May 13 2004 - 09:07:34 PDT
Mike Burrell wrote:
>>Morals: (n) Motivation based on ideas of right and wrong.
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>My little dictionary states it this way: Moral: of or concerned with right
>conduct.
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Dictionary.com defines it this way:
/adj./
1. Of or concerned with the judgment of the goodness or badness of
human action and character: moral scrutiny; a moral quandary.
2. Teaching or exhibiting goodness or correctness of character and
behavior: a moral lesson.
3. Conforming to standards of what is right or just in behavior;
virtuous: a moral life.
4. Arising from conscience or the sense of right and wrong: a moral
obligation.
5. Having psychological rather than physical or tangible effects: a
moral victory; moral support.
6. Based on strong likelihood or firm conviction, rather than on the
actual evidence: a moral certainty.
/n./
1. The lesson or principle contained in or taught by a fable, a
story, or an event.
2. A concisely expressed precept or general truth; a maxim.
3. *morals* Rules or habits of conduct, especially of sexual conduct,
with reference to standards of right and wrong: a person of loose
morals; a decline in the public morals.
>>Tell me Mike, where does God and The Bible come into the argument?
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>Where doesn't God come into consideration?
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When you're an atheist?
>>Morals are based on individual or societal ideologies, not 'the word of
>>God'.
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>We're learning what happens when morals are defined by society. In fact,
>other 'civilizations' have previously learned the hard lesson and no longer
>exist. Ancient Egypt and Rome, for example. You'd think we'd take a lesson
>from history.
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Of course, Rome didn't fall untill it converted converted to
christianity, so are you saying that when a society adopts christian
morals it ultimatly falls?
Scot
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