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Diploid
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Re: Answering 'Maybe' To A YES|NO Question

[Re: MushmanTheManic]
#6237266 - 11/01/06 10:50 PM (19 years, 9 months ago)

the big question - Is deduction the only tool available in an ethical argument?

I think induction has utility and also limitations.

Induction is good for seeing the big picture, finding a starting point, and as a broad net when fishing for what I call 'Truth Candidates'. But for pinning down the Truth, in so far as that can be done, it's lacking, IMO.

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2) You can't have an abortion no matter how much you don't want a child.
3) You can't have a certain plant in your possession or you'll get locked up with a rapist and a murderer.

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Re: Answering 'Maybe' To A YES|NO Question

[Re: Diploid]
#6237974 - 11/02/06 04:42 AM (19 years, 9 months ago)

Most ethical questions are not black and white...in fact there is no black and white and all ethics are culturally defined. Right and wrong...if they could be said to exist...are completely relative.

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