Re: ESSAY: 'Debunking Hippy-Dippy moral philosophy'

From: Randall Randall (randall@randallsquared.com)
Date: Tue Jun 15 2004 - 11:03:11 MDT


On Jun 15, 2004, at 12:22 PM, fudley wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 "Marc Geddes" <marc_geddes@yahoo.co.nz> said:
>> Circular reasoning here. You simply pre-supossed
>> that: 'there is there is no relationship between the
>> reading on the meter and the wishes and opinions of
>> the user or any other human'.
> If morality is truly objective then any correlation between the wishes
> of a person and the readings on the meter are purely coincidental, you
> might as well flip a coin as look at the meter.

In the same way as the objectivity of length
means that any correlation between a person's
estimate of a distance and the readings on an
odometer are purely coincidental?

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Randall Randall <randall@randallsquared.com>
Property law should use #'EQ , not #'EQUAL .


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