From: m.l.vere@durham.ac.uk
Date: Sun May 14 2006 - 16:53:41 MDT
Quoting Phillip Huggan <cdnprodigy@yahoo.com>:
> No you idiot, the proof comes from the searing pain you felt when you
> repeatedly burnt your hand on the stove as a child. Memory and education
> have absolutely nothing to do with it. It is simply the way the way your
> Central Nervous System is engineered. Altering/affecting CNSs in other
> people for better or worse is how OBJECTIVELY moral actions occur in this
> universe.
'The searing pain' now exists only as the memory to which i am refering.
Would you please prove to me how altering/affecting the CNS of *other* people
causes an objectively moral action - or why i should care (other than in terms
of reciprocity).
> m.l.vere@durham.ac.uk wrote: Depends what you mean by better. I know i dont
> like pain, and i like pleasure -
> the proof of this comes from my memory of my qualia and also my knowledge of
>
> anatomy, evolutionary psycology etc.
>
>
>
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