In <1qvh8tINNsg6@citation.ksu.ksu.edu> yohan@citation.ksu.ksu.edu (Jonathan W 




This doesn't seem right.  If I want to kill you, I can because that is what I
decide?


Not really.  If whatever a particular society mandates as ok is ok, there are
always some in the "society" who disagree with the mandates, so which 
societal mandates make the standard for morality?
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So what should be the basis? Unfortunately I have to admit to being tied at 
least loosely to the "feeling", in that I think we intuitively know some things
to be wrong.  Awfully hard to defend, though.


I might agree here.  Just because certain actions are legal does not make them
"moral".
deficits.

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