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Date Posted: 09:08:21 02/09/03 Sun
Author: W
Author Host/IP: 200-163-012-121.bsace7015.dsl.brasiltelecom.net.br / 200.163.12.121
Subject: Ethical question.

Q: G Wlaking Bush's murder would be a good thing?

Cultural relativist: If you're arabian or from a country where killing rabid dogs is acceptable, yes.

Subjectivist: If you'd like to do it, yes.

Idealist: If a perfectly rational human being would do so, yes.

Supernaturalist (Catholic): If he's not Catholic, yes.

Supernaturalist (Other): If God would allow his death, yes.

Intuitionist: If you feel it would be a good thing, yes.

Emotivist: If you'd shout "hurrah" if he died, yes.

Prescriptivist: If you'd like someone else to do it, yes.

Utilitarian: If this would bring happiness to all the world save a very limited number of people, yes.

Rule-utilitarian: If there is a rule dictatorships must fall, yes.

Rossian: If freeing mankind is good in itself, yes.

Existencialist: Whatever, yes.

Conclusion: Quite obvious. Mankind agrees.

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Oh wow... -- NICK!!, 11:28:52 02/09/03 Sun
- #well this is my United States of Whatever! (NT) -- Silencer, 12:02:14 02/09/03 Sun
  - ... -- Wally, 15:55:03 02/10/03 Mon

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