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Old 12-28-2008, 10:08 PM   #1
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Now you're running into the idea of moral absolutes. If you see something as always wrong, irregardless of the situation with no "it depends" gray area, then it is easy to understand how people who recognize something as a moral absolute can equate inaction as equal to or worse than normal opposition. "Now, we must all fear evil men. But there is another kind of evil which we must fear most, and that is the indifference of good men." (name that movie!).
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Old 12-28-2008, 10:20 PM   #2
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....then it is easy to understand how people who recognize something as a moral absolute can equate inaction as equal to or worse than normal opposition.
Oh I understand them, I just don't agree with them.
Nor do I let them call me, or people that feel the way I do, intolerant, unchallenged.
I don't expect to change their opinion, just telling them they are not changing mine.
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Old 12-28-2008, 10:23 PM   #3
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Oh I understand them, I just don't agree with them.
Nor do I let them call me, or people that feel the way I do, intolerant, unchallenged.
I don't expect to change their opinion, just telling them they are not changing mine.
Agreed.
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Old 01-24-2009, 01:58 AM   #4
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"Now, we must all fear evil men. But there is another kind of evil which we must fear most, and that is the indifference of good men." (name that movie!).
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