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Old 06-06-2008, 10:14 AM   #11
Flint
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Originally Posted by smoothmoniker View Post
The moral weight of a preventable death is in no way contingent on the social group's ability to "deal with it as a fact of life."
This is true...if assuming a philosophical view of death as a "bad" thing. The temptation is to assume that everyone shares your worldview. And worse, if they don't, that you can say their view is "wrong" and yours is "right". I suppose you could say that this you are invoking something immutable; but I could also say "No, you aren't." Then we'd have a disagreement. The resolution to the disagreement isn't to just say you're "right" and I'm "wrong".
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