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!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!umcp-cs!mangoe From: mangoe@umcp-cs.UUCP (Charley Wingate) Newsgroups: net.religion Subject: Re: Where do morals come from Message-ID: <1766@umcp-cs.UUCP> Date: Mon, 10-Dec-84 11:48:07 EST Article-I.D.: umcp-cs.1766 Posted: Mon Dec 10 11:48:07 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 12-Dec-84 04:17:20 EST References:<265@oakhill.UUCP> Distribution: na Organization: U of Maryland, Computer Science Dept., College Park, MD Lines: 19 I was afraid that my question was going to be misunderstood. Let me rephrase it and try to bring up some side issues I'd like to hear about. (1) What is it that makes you follow whatever moral system you follow? (In other words, why not some other system? or why follow any?) (2) Do you grant it and external authority? For instance, does it permit judging someone like Adolf Hitler as morally corrupt? (3) (Parents only) By authority do you teach a moral system to your children? No flames please. By the way, the "moral authority assumption" arises from the realization that if moral systems are entirely produced internally, than why should there be a sense of guilt in not following it? Charley Wingate umcp-cs!mangoe Ubi caritas et amor, Deus ibi est.