It would seem to be that you're trying to decide if something is immoral, and you're looking at the thing itself to tell you. But morality/immorality exists prior to the thing questioned. — tim wood
No, we have not. Not in any way whatsoever. — tim wood
No. I haven't the strength or time. — tim wood
And you and others are not really interested - that from the tenor and progress of the thread. — tim wood
That's because you haven't understood the tension in this thread — tim wood
Are all illegal acts immoral? Yes. — tim wood
So mocking me is essentially mocking yourself as not merely ignorant - we're all ignorant - but stupid in that you cannot or will not recognize kinds of sense and arguments that run back as far as writing, made by people whom ignorant people sometimes find fashionable to dismiss because, apparently, they think it makes them look smart. Don't be one of those people. — tim wood
Make your case! — tim wood
I point you toward Plato's Crito and Phaedrus. Kant's Groundworks for a Metapysics of Morals. — tim wood
Thoreau — tim wood
A disgusting way to express whatever you're expressing. — tim wood
the point I've been pushing up a cliff in this thread, is that breaking the law is immoral; — tim wood
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