Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site mhuxt.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!floyd!vax135!ariel!houti!hogpc!houxm!mhuxa!mhuxm!mhuxv!mhuxr!mhuxh!mhuxt!mambo From: mambo@mhuxt.UUCP Newsgroups: net.philosophy Subject: Re: Life as a basis for good vs evil Message-ID: <11@mhuxt.UUCP> Date: Mon, 20-Jun-83 17:57:07 EDT Article-I.D.: mhuxt.11 Posted: Mon Jun 20 17:57:07 1983 Date-Received: Fri, 24-Jun-83 11:09:05 EDT Organization: Bell Labs, Murray Hill Lines: 21 > Without human life, there can be no good or evil - because there > would be no one to judge actions or events, and no humans to > be effected by them. Now wait just a minute. How can it be said that good and evil don't exist without people defining them? Isn't that like saying, "If a tree falls in the forest, but nobody is there to hear it fall, it didn't make a noise"? What if humans detonated a weapon that destroyed all human life on this planet? Is that weapon evil before it goes off, and not necessarily evil after it goes off? And what if there exists some hypothetical life form that may be more advanced intellectually or emotionally than human beings? Would something that harms that life form but gives a great deal of satisfaction to ALL humans be good? Something fundamental seems to be missing in that initial premise. Fred Richards ..mhuxt!mambo