Re: acting right

From: Wolf Kirchmeir (wwolfkir_at_sympatico.ca)
Date: 08/09/04 

Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2004 19:37:10 -0400

Roy Jose Lorr wrote:
[...]
> You cannot train conscience.

Evidence?

> You may only be taught to recognize conscience.

Evidence?

> Conscience is not of equal quality in every individual.

"Quality" is a nebulous term. Metric, please.

> There is no middle ground between right and wrong.

Ah, you're an either-or reasoner. No wonder you don't like reason.

Two comments, of a possible multitude:

A) The law disagrees with you. In Europe, the US, etc, different kinds
of killing are held to be differently culpable, for example.

B) Most things we do are more or less right/wrong depending on the
situation. Eg, having a drink less than an hour before driving is mildly
wrong if it's the only drink, but very wrong if it's the third or fourth
drink within an hour, and extremely wrong if you're falling down drunk
already. It's not wrong if it's only one drink, and there's an hour or
more time lapse between drinking and driving.

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