Re: Torture - A lawful good act?

On Jan 2, 4:22 am, veritas <khogan...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Dec 30 2007, 1:31 pm, David Klassen <klas...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"The Lessons of History" Will Durant. Read him, and the lessons are
in the last volume.

Looked him up; he's a philosopher, not an historian. And he died in
1981! How does that make him qualified to make statements on what
society can and can't handle in 2008?! Not only that, but he was a
seminarian and preacher, which could be biasing his ideas. And
looking
at some reviews on the web, sure enough, he discusses things in terms
of "sins" and the Ten Commandments. Yep, bias. In fact, another
review quotes the Durants as saying that "There never has been a
significant
example of morality apart from belief in God". Yep, bias. Thus, he
no doubt talks about declines in society as being due to "immorality"
then lumps a bunch of stuff into that bin. Pretty simplistic stuff
there.

Oh, and MA, and Canada. I think not in the states, they may be
imagining they are, but they aren't. Canada, I check, but my guess is
my friends will laugh their asses off about the question.

You can *think* gay marriage is not legal in those places, but the
legislation was drafted, passed, and ratified in both. Ergo, gays
*are* married in MA and Canada (among other places). You may
only think they're not...
.

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