Re: computer pain

2006-12-21 Thread John Mikes
Stathis, your 'augmentded' ethical maxim is excellent, I could add some more 'except foe'-s to it. (lower class, cast, or wealth, - language, - gender, etc.) The last par, however, is prone to a more serious remark of mine: topics like you sampled are culture related prejudicial beief-items. Rese

Re: computer pain

2006-12-21 Thread 1Z
Stathis Papaioannou wrote: Peter Jones writes: > It is indisputable that morality varies in practice across communities. > But the contention of ethical objectivism is not that everyone actually > does hold to a single objective system of ethics; it is only that > ethical questions can be reso

Re: computer pain

2006-12-21 Thread 1Z
Stathis Papaioannou wrote: Peter Jones writes: > > Perhaps none of the participants in this thread really disagree. Let me see if I > > can summarise: > > > > Individuals and societies have arrived at ethical beliefs for a reason, whether that be > > evolution, what their parents taught them

RE: computer pain

2006-12-21 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
Peter Jones writes: It is indisputable that morality varies in practice across communities. But the contention of ethical objectivism is not that everyone actually does hold to a single objective system of ethics; it is only that ethical questions can be resolved objectively in principle. The

RE: computer pain

2006-12-21 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
Peter Jones writes: > Perhaps none of the participants in this thread really disagree. Let me see if I > can summarise: > > Individuals and societies have arrived at ethical beliefs for a reason, whether that be > evolution, what their parents taught them, or what it says in a book believ