From: Barbara Lamar (blamar@satx.rr.com)
Date: Fri Jul 25 2003 - 10:09:58 MDT
Lee Corbin wrote:
...
> Indeed, as I have said, I personally would not recommend
> that any nation execute an unprovoked nuclear attack on
> any other at this time nor in the foreseeable future---
> but I admit the possibility that I could be dead wrong.
I would like to point out the difference between what Lee has written and
the implication that one must not let a moral code stand in one's way of
doing whatever might seem to advance a certain goal.
Lee's comments imply that before taking action, he would want to be sure
that what he was doing did not violate his moral code. Robert's question:
"Are we are willing to sacrifice humanity due to personal or moral
repugnance?" implies that one should be willing to say "The hell with
morality. This action will advance Goal Y, so I'm going to do it, regardless
of the fact that it is incompatible with my moral code." (repugnant =
opposed, contradictory, incompatible
http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=repugnantc0
Barbara
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