Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site umcp-cs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!akgua!mcnc!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!umcp-cs!mangoe From: mangoe@umcp-cs.UUCP (Charley Wingate) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Bachelor vs slut Message-ID: <137@umcp-cs.UUCP> Date: Wed, 26-Sep-84 22:45:35 EDT Article-I.D.: umcp-cs.137 Posted: Wed Sep 26 22:45:35 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 30-Sep-84 02:35:48 EDT References: <140@cadovax.UUCP> Organization: U of Maryland, Computer Science Dept., College Park, MD Lines: 13 Brent, who gave you the right to decide what my morality should be? If in my heart of hearts, I feel that something is wrong, to me it's wrong, and I must act on that feeling unless some other principle overrides it. To all of those who suppose that I have not right to do what my morality tells me to do: If it doesn't prompt you to action, it isn't really morality. If I feel that sexual promiscuity is wrong, and a detriment to society, I have a moral obligation to act on that belief. In point of fact, I did not advocate any sort of penalties upon these people; all I did was express my distaste. This business of morality being purely a matter of taste is moral bankruptcy. It absolves anyone of ever having to worry about the morality of anything.