From: Paul Grant (shade999@optonline.net)
Date: Fri Jul 25 2003 - 17:37:04 MDT
From: owner-extropians@extropy.org [mailto:owner-extropians@extropy.org]
On Behalf Of Brett Paatsch
Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 4:01 PM
Brett Paatsch writes:
Kevin Freels writes:
> When carrying out a preemptive strike, we are only
> weighing possibilities, not realities.
[Brett] - True, but if we don't carry out a preemptive strike <snip>
then we are also only weighting possibilities not realities. We do not
have certain knowledge of the actions of others only probabilistic
knowledge, only our judgements. If it is immoral to act on a presumption
that is based on ones best judgements made in good faith - then
*everything* is immoral and the very concept of morality itself becomes
absurd as we ultimately have no other recourse than to act on our own
judgement.
Me:
Bing; that is to say that sans complete information (or rather, when
acting on
knowledge of probabilities in a premptive fashion), you can't really
consider
ur reaction moral or immoral.... Pretty much the only time u can
consider
something moral or immoral is after the event has occurred, and then,
only
for urself. Morality has absolutely no import in a pre-emptive
doctrine.
Anyone that believes to the contrary has not rationally examined the
situation.
Generally speaking, I have no use for morality;
just ethics [standard api, consistently adhered to,
logically derived, based on reality]....
omard-out
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