<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 9:15 PM, Jeff Wilson <<a href="mailto:jwilson@io.com">jwilson@io.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">Paul B wrote:<br>
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Wha?! Saying that murder on a planetwide scale is wrong is not an inherently utilitarian statement but a very general one. It doesn't assume much about a moral framework, save one that places inherent value on life.<br>
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That would be "on individual *human* life." Life in general will benefit enormously from the coming of Ushas, returning to the world-wide range where it had flourished in eons past.<div class="Ih2E3d"></div></blockquote>
<div><br>And this right here would in fact be a utilitarian argument - the greater good is achieved (assuming Ushas is actually so great, but that's irrelevant for the moment). However, "murder is wrong" is not utilitarian, which is what I was saying before. It can be a general outcome of several moral systems.<br>
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