--- Santosh Helekar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Are people who condone the killing of young adults > and children for fictitious ideological reasons > more moral than those who support the use of > artificially produced embryonic stem cells for > medical research? > Mario asks: > Santosh, This is a false choice because of what appears to be two fictitious hypotheticals, stated without any context or perspective, which you should provide before asking such a half-baked question. > Santosh writes: > > Is hypocrisy a part of the molten moral code? > Mario answers: > Yes, as I have been trying to point out, hypocrisy is part and parcel of a "molten moral code" that unorganized individual atheists MAY be following. In this case, how would anyone even know, unless the person gets arrested? > People who sign on to a religion or morally based group like the Jains and Buddhists and followers of Sai Baba, accept rock solid moral codes as their guiding principles, even if, as humans, they fail to comply a 100% of the time. When they fail, the code immediately informs them, and guides them back. > Hypocrisy, by definition, is not part of the rock solid moral codes of organized religious and other groups. Though individual members may engage in it, the group they belong to would know and the member would pay some consequences, in credibility if nothing else, or more serious consequences depending on the severity of the infraction. >
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