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  • Unknown Member

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    May 20, 2008 at 7:47 am

    ORIGINAL: jackbauer

    ORIGINAL: Hero of Reason

    You want a natural law to cover this.. and there are none.. You want an absolute.. and there are none.. not anywhere that we can find.

    Fair enough.  So a society based strictly on “science” wouldn’t even be able to address this?

     
    [i]1[b]:[/b] the state of knowing [b]:[/b] knowledge as distinguished from ignorance or misunderstanding2 a[b]:[/b] a department of systematized knowledge as an object of study <the science of theology> b[b]:[/b] something (as a sport or technique) that may be studied or learned like systematized knowledge <have it down to a science>3 a[b]:[/b] knowledge or a system of knowledge covering general truths or the operation of general laws especially as obtained and tested through [link=http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scientific][u][color=#0000ff]scientific[/color][/u][/link] method b[b]:[/b] such knowledge or such a system of knowledge concerned with the physical world and its phenomena [b]:[/b] [link=http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/natural+science][u][color=#0000ff]natural science[/color][/u][/link]4[b]:[/b] a system or method reconciling practical ends with [link=http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scientific][u][color=#0000ff]scientific[/color][/u][/link] laws <cooking is both a science and an art>[/i]
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    These are the definitions of science as taken from old merriam-webster.. Which of these definitions do you feel morality fits under? Morality, right, wrong, good, evil…. all these are subjective issues. Each person has his own idea of what is moral.. what is right and what is wrong.. and that usually comes from the culture they were associated with.. The ancient Inca saw the sacrifices of life to appease the gods an necessary thing while today we see it as wrong.. Can we really say they were wrong in their thinking?.. but at that same time they will say YOU are wrong based on their morality and religion..
     
    What I would need to see is why your morality and your culture is correct in their actions while their actions are not wrong and how you base that compared to their times and morality.