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This post is slightly different than the one you sent me on SAT , no?
Unfortunately I accidentally deleted that puppy - I think it was more
cogent.
I don't think I mentioned anything about sexual morality - so I'm not sure
what your disclaimer is about.
I think "just be a good human being" would be an excellent law - too bad it
has never been tried. Maybe there are too few good human beings.
God? Cosmic consciousness? My beliefs are certainly not based on either of
those problematic concepts.
In your original post you implied that My view was that any belief system is
valid, and that I would allow anyone any action because I accepted all
beliefs as equal. I don't think that is what I said.
What I said was that a person who acts "correctly" because of external
pressure to act that way is not behaving Morally. Moral behavior is when you
act correctly because you believe it is the right way to act.
People can think what they like. That is freedom. Does that mean anything
they think is moral? No. never said that. Does that mean any act is
permissible? Nope - never said that either.
Did I deny community? Nope - I just said that I define my community rather
more broadly than you define yours.
I was very explicit about what I think is moral - I did not say that
everyone's morality was equally correct.
Let me repeat: I stand for freedom of thought and action, guided by
compassion.
You focused on the 1st half of that, and ignored the compassion part.
Typical really.
Now lets rein this in a bit and get back to the discussion - I made a joke -
a tasteless joke, especially in the context - but a joke none the less. You
told me my joke was not "serving the Jewish community." My joke was not made
by, for, or in behalf of the Jewish community, as I am not the Jewish
community. I am a person, perhaps with an inappropriate sense of humor.
You then told me you have no sense of humor when it comes to the Jewish
community. I tell you - you have not learned the behavior patterns or
survival skills of the community you claim to typify. The Jewish response
has ALWAYS been humor - it is our greatest strength - the ability to disarm
tragedy through humor.
If anyone is not true to the ideals of the so-called Jewish community then,
it is you not I.
Because I defended humor, you asked me where I stood about morality -
And told me I was outside the morality of the Jewish community. I agreed -
that is not the community that I primarily define myself by.
I am not sure where you get from that the idea that I think all morals are
equal, all communities equally legitimate ,and all actions acceptable. I
just think that basing morality on fairy tales and bloodlines is ridiculous
at best, and more often dangerous than not.
on 01/08/03 1:31 AM, Zuukie at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I reached my posting limit on Sunday, so I could not reply to you then.
> Here is the response to your comments which appear after mine.
>
> Let me say here when I talk of morality, I am not just talking about
> sexual morality. I am talking about all interactions between
> individuals, individuals as community members and those actions which
> link an individual's life to a plan that seems to go beyond the world
> immediately around us.
>
> There is no contradiction in what I say. The history of the
> determination of what is moral behavior toward others is demonstrated
> very clearly in the Talmud for example where the leaders of the Jewish
> community analyzed thru argument using precedent and review of accepted
> religious writings the basics of what was moral behavior in given
> situations. Community law had to conform to moral law. Moral law was
> not determined by what community law was. Nor was it not left to what
> each individual community member considered valid in their own thinking,
> because individual belief is limited by one's own experience and one's
> own exposure to information. In addition, human beings seem to very
> successfully rationalize any kind of action they want in their life.
> There would have been no necessity for religious law or civil law if
> "Just be a good human being" was good enough law. Your do-it-yourself
> moral code is very New Age and rests on the idea that every person is
> part of God energy and is tapping into some sort of cosmic consciousness
> to determine what is acceptable individual morality which needs no other
> justification. Authorized community morality, or laws, then become
> determined by those who are in power and have the strongest will as not
> all individual moral positions can be accommodated where there is
> community life.
>
> You talk of your morality not as a response, but as of your own
> determination. Idealistic. How will you resolve the differences
> between your morality, the morality of others and the morality of those
> in power when there is a conflict? How can you hold on to your moral
> beliefs in the face of those in power whose moral beliefs are different
> than yours and still survive as a member of a political community?
>
> You say that individuals can think what they wish. Can they act on what
> they believe or are they only allowed to think what they wish? Read
> Gene Veith's book, Modern Fascism. Modern Fascism is not what you think
> it is.
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