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Old Nov 4, 2007, 12:16 am   #7 (permalink) (top)
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Just playing devil's advocate here, but why? How do you know that beating a child to death is wrong? What makes it wrong?
That depends on your epistemology which depends on your metaphysics. If you hold human life as a value. Beating a human to death is wrong.


"Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and of greatness should be waiting for us in our graves. . .or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth." From Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
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