Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 02:15:33 +1000 From: lpellen-AT-enternet.com.au (Luke Pellen) Subject: Re: Revolting Hi Celine, how are things?... Frank writes [in response to Celine]: >>How can you judge without any rules? Any judgment assumes some >>set of rules, you >>may or may not want to call these laws, but they have to exist, Celine replies: >No, I don't agree with this. I believe that there can be personal >judgement that assumes nothing, no laws, no rules. One must take >this statement step by step, one thing follows the other. What I >am suggesting is a progression. I am not even saying that this is >even possible in the real world, as we know it. This is pure >investigation, freed from all reality. > >So we start at the point where there are no moral or ethical >codes, period. Complete freedom. An entirely new ballpark, new >world. You have a population of people who are thinking purely of >their true desires, unfettered, unperverted, undeformed. Each one >judges their own actions and does this splendidly, accurately. Do >you not think the human race can do this? Do you not think you >can do this? I just thought I'd contribute my thoughts by cutting and pasting a couple of paragraphs I wrote when I replied to a recent post by Barrett; I think they are appropriate here and seem to correspond with Celine's thoughts [yes Celine?]: The ideal system of ethics is one which takes into account the EXACT nature of every single situation. So, there may be grounds for rejecting ALL ethical and moral systems - precisely because they are neat, compact, oversimplified "systems" and therefore must be ultimately inadequate in this respect - and adopting an amoral system of ethics. This system would be amoral in the sense that it would be a result of spontaneious decision, something which has it's origin in the unconscious, and so has no moral intention. If we simply react to a situation in an intuitive way which "feels right", then that is enough. Over time, through a psychological feedback process involving the creation, unconscious evaluation and modification of certain spontaneious ethical decisions, we would create and maintain an unconscious, automatic "ethical module". Luke. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- e-mail: lpellen-AT-enternet.com.au WWW: http://people.enternet.com.au/~lpellen/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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