alt.education

In article < @ > @ writes:
> On Oct 4, 7:34 pm, c...@ (Cary Kittrell) wrote:
> > duke
> >
> >
> >
> > > On Thu, 4 Oct 2007 16:20:29 +0000 (UTC), c...@ (Cary
> > > Kittrell) wrote:
> >
> > > >> >Killing people because of their religious beliefs
> > > >> >is a "correction"?
> > > >> Hey, this was medieval Europe 1000 years ago.
> >
> > > >And this makes it not so bad?
> >
> > > Different culture. You know those Europeans.
> >
> > Why lookie there: Duke has become a moral relativist;
> > it wasn't a sin if they didn't think it was a sin.
> >
> >
> >
> > > >I seem to recall in that book you really should
> > > >read sometime that murder was forbidden murder some 2500
> > > >years ago.
> >
> > > Murder is forbidden. Capital punishment is not murder.
> >
> > We're not talking about "capital punishment", we're talking
> > about slaughtering thousands because they refuse to
> > adopt your take on religion. That's murder.
> >
>
> Just a note -- if heresy is a capital offense, then executing heretics
> technically isn't murder. It is indeed merely capital punishment,
> even if we don't like it.

And that's the exact point Dookie's been trying to hide behind
throughout all this: trying to hide behind law, although I've
been asking him about morality instead.

Or to put it another way: if Lebanon were to pass a law tomorrow
requiring that all non-Muslims convert immedieately or be
put to death, then the resulting slaughter of Christians
would be legal ... and monstrously immoral.


-- cary