In article <475### [at] hotmailcom>, a_l### [at] hotmailcom 
says...
> Patrick Elliott wrote:
> > In article <4753b011$1@news.povray.org>, dne### [at] sanrrcom says...
> >> Tim Cook wrote:
> >>> Ethics is almost entirely 
> >>> arbitrary, aside some fundamental survival derivatives.
> >> I would disagree, but that's OK.
> >>
> > I would disagree too. You don't learn ethics by someone *telling* you
 
> > that its bad, you do so by testing the boundaries of what, first, you
 
> > parents allow, then society, and concluding, based on evidence, that 
> > there are **consequences** for acting unethically. Its only arbitrary i
n 
> > the sense that "sometimes" the rules are based on irrational projection
s 
> > of imaginary consequences, or misinterpretations of the magnitude, 
> > nature, existence or even the actual cause of real consequences.
> > 
> That is not ethics, that is culture. You learn ethics by finding out why
 
> the universe exist and what it's ultimate goal is. Use that as a basis 
> to explain mankind's existence and its final purpose. From that you can
 
> derive what you as a person should do. At least that is how I did it 
> (granted, I still have to fill in some minor details).
> 
One of us is using a completely crazy definition of what "ethics" means, 
and since yours is nothing like what *anyone* I have ever talked to 
uses, I don't think its mine. Just saying...

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