tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8674902.post111392167560612103..comments2023-09-29T07:43:46.743-04:00Comments on Ratfuck Diary: The RCC and GOP Have to Muck Out Their Own StablesJoy Tommehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14058291043480356463noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8674902.post-1114116576397957192005-04-21T16:49:00.000-04:002005-04-21T16:49:00.000-04:00In what way do you suspect the RCC will collapse?A...In what way do you suspect the RCC will collapse?<BR/><BR/>Also, I think it is not difficult to deny the "immorality" of the list you give, by means of counterexamples. For example, lying is not "wrong" if you are the Allied forces in World War II, trying to deceive the Axis forces. Ethical systems do not exist apart from the physical environment, which is not known absolutely, and so ethics cannot be absolute. The genesis of ethical systems is an empirical question requiring scientific study; properly it is a branch of anthropology. Failure to classify comparative ethics as an empirical science is a major source of the human race's bafflement and contention.Barry Schwartzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12817873613927688419noreply@blogger.com