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smoothmoniker · 05-13-2003, 07:39 PM

I don't know if this conversation is really possible until people are sitting at the same table. Until you've established that there is such a thing as evil, to ask whether people are born with a propensity toward it is rather meaningless. Until there is some agreement on the validity of people having an ethical orientation that is proper to their nature, asking what direction that orientation points is also meaningless.

The questions are worthwhile, but it's evident that a lot of groundwork needs to be laid prior to the present conversation. We should do so.

-sm

05-13-2003, 07:39 PM	#24
smoothmoniker to live and die in LA Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 2,090	I don't know if this conversation is really possible until people are sitting at the same table. Until you've established that there is such a thing as evil, to ask whether people are born with a propensity toward it is rather meaningless. Until there is some agreement on the validity of people having an ethical orientation that is proper to their nature, asking what direction that orientation points is also meaningless. The questions are worthwhile, but it's evident that a lot of groundwork needs to be laid prior to the present conversation. We should do so. -sm