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How many...

Posted by: Red Deathy ( Socialist Party, Uk ) on May 11, 1999 at 18:56:21:

In Reply to: How many of you people... posted by Stuart Gort on May 11, 1999 at 07:21:39:

: How many of you people believe all of the following three things?

: 1. It is wrong to eat meat.

Nope, certainly not in any transcendental categorical imperative sense.

: 2. Humans are not superior to animals.

Define superior. Humans are more important, to humans, in our hierarchy of values,a nd must be, but that does not equate with a great chain of being, nor transcendant superiority. Cheetas can run faster than humans...etc.

: 3. Homosexuality is not wrong.

Not in any transcendental categorical imperative sense, no. But it is not harmeful to humans neither, so why not?

: If man is an animal then he is superior to other animals because he can practice morality where the others cannot.

No, man is different to animals, and the specific difference, the one that breeds mroality, is self-consciousness, the awareness that we are, and a capacity to articulate that awareness socially in language.

: Why must we practice the preferred morality of the left and disregard time honored morality?


How time honoured- morality was invented in its present form in teh victorian era, its a specifically middle-class morality, we can look back to time honoured examples of verneration of homosexuality in Hellenic greece, and something of an acceptance of it in the medieval church (brotherly love...).

I find it strange that every time you wheel out your interpollating dichotomy of homosexual disgust ('why should none queers say they don't find homosexuality disgusting, if they won't sleep with other men?') you fail utterly to respond to my 'disinterest' reply, doubtless because it can escape your nice little closed logic system, and leaves you without rejoinder.

Further, there is no morality but the morality we make, we can choose our own morals, why should we be bound by the morality of 1830?




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