What's So Great About Ushas?

Jeff Wilson · 11 Jul 2008, 04:12 · from 2008-July.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 23:12:02 -0500
Subject: (urth) What's So Great About Ushas?
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Paul B wrote:
> Sure, moral relativism can solve any ethical difficulty, if by "solve" 
> one means "circumvent".  However, the reason it might be less 
> interesting to pursue here is precisely due to the nature of the author 
> whose worlds, in all likelihood due to his personal beliefs, have 
> mentions of absolute Truth and hence an absolute Morality to boot.  The 
> Increate or the Outsider or what have you is not compatible with moral 
> relativism.

I don't think moral relativism enters into it so much as moral 
segregation. The same Increate to which humans attribute their moral 
code against incest they also attribute the creation of living things 
that *require* incest to reproduce.

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Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
< http://www.io.com/~jwilson >

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