Klarinet Archive - Posting 000237.txt from 2004/11

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] RE: elections
Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 23:11:19 -0500

At 07:05 AM 11/5/2004 -0600, Forest Aten wrote:
>ANY brand would do, for a change. It has nothing to do with religion.
>
>I'd be careful Bill. I'm pretty sure that some of the "brands" or morality
>wouldn't appeal to your right leanings. Many of these unacceptable "brands"
>would meet all of the criteria to qualify as a "good" ethic of morality.

You'd be surprised how flexible we "right-wing nut jobs" can be. We have a
problem with people who find it morally DESIRABLE to suicide bomb the
innocent women and children of people with whom they disagree, and use
their OWN women and children as human shields, or who put in concentration
camps and gas people whose religious and ethnic background differ from
theirs, but other than that we can be remarkably tolerant. However, the
currently popular "anything goes" attitude regarding sex, drugs, money, and
everything else qualifies as NO morality, and results in a civilization
that is less and less able to live up to that name. If people would only
seriously follow the so-called Golden Rule -- "Do unto others as you would
have them do unto you" -- even that would be enough!

Bill Hausmann

If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!

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