>Xcto@aol.com wrote, in response to the three questions below...
>
><< 1) Is it moral for a small society of Amazon Indians to totally destroy a
>> tropical rain forest -- an entire ecosystem and all plants and animals
>within
> >it -- and replace it with a plantation?
>> 2) Is it moral for a free democracy to hunt down and kill terrorists in the
>> Middle East?
>> 3) If 1940's Japan had attacked the Lila Squad, rather than the U.S., and
>> tried to wipe us out and replace our free intellectual exchanges with
>Fascism,
>> would it be moral for our small group to protect ourselves and drop nuclear
>> weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki ……..killing millions? >>
>
>Great questions, Roger.
>
>Dammit these questions are good. At first I thought it would be very clear,
>but I'm not sure now. At first I thought it was 1 - social-biological; 2 -
>intellectual-social and 3 - intellectual-social. This was because the second
>and third were about differences in the subjective (intellectual and social)
>and not physical (biological/inorganic) but....<<SNIP>>
How about, to each of the questions, a yes or a no--followed by reasons why
MOQ provides an answer different than (or the same as) SOM?
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