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Goldmund Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-21-04 03:18 PM
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67. That's not what I said.
I said I don't believe there's such a thing as "THE right thing to do". One is relative, one is absolute. Fundamentally different.

Why are you assuming you would 'have a clearer conscience' in the one case or the other? Isn't it more likely that you wouldn't have a clear conscience in either case? Are your feelings really even relevant?

I think you're completely misundertanding me. It was _you_ who made the distinction of you personally causing the deaths or not. If it isn't clarity of your conscience, what, then, does that disctinction rest upon? How does it make an ethical difference?

It was my whole point to question the relevancy of your own feelings, now you're asking me "are your feelings even relevant?". I'm totally confused with what you're saying. If your feelings aren't relevant, how can you make a disctinction between who causes the deaths, you or some third power -- when your decision will determine whether 1 or 10 million die?
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