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Originally posted by Spanky
That is complete "Horseshit". When you same something is wrong, you are assuming that we both agree what is right or wrong. If you say something is illegal, we can only argue whether something is illegal, if we both agree to the same laws. If there is more than one legal system we are using, then we can't debate the concept of what is illegal. If you are using the Saudi Arabian laws, and I am using the US legal system, something could be illegal and legal at the same time.
If you tell me something is "wrong" or "immoral" the implication is there are set rules to what are right and wrong and that we both are using the same rules. Otherwise what is wrong to you may be right to me. When you are telling me something is immoral or wrong you are assuming there is a moral code that we both have in common.
That is not complicated, and once you think about, it is obvious.
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You assume words like "wrong" and "immoral" have meaning beyond "illegal", but who gives those words this status?
Grasshopper, remember, words are words. Speaking, meaning, and doing are as different from each other as red, blue and yellow.
Someday, perhaps, you shall take the pebble from my hand. But not today.
