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Subject: Re: Re: Premises,Premises,Premises,... (
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Date: Sat, 22-Jun-85 23:45:00 EDT
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>What about the Hell's angels.
>Their morality seems
>to be based on doing what is 'bad'.

No, their morality (at least as distorted by the media; did you ever *meet*
a Hell's Angel?) seems to be based on what you consider bad.  Hell's angels
consider various forms of conformity with society's norms as bad; they
consider choppers, macho, beer drinking, carrying knifes, fighting for their
honor, tattoos, and donating tons of children's toys as good.  If they say,
"yeah, he's really baaaad", they consider being "baaaad" as good, but they
don't consider bad (as defined within their own morality) as being good
(as defined within their own morality).  That is why you had to put `bad'
in quotes.  The mistake comes from giving what *you* think is `bad'
special status.

-- Jim Balter (ima!jim)