Thread: Define good
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Old Nov 6, 2007, 03:30 am   #19 (permalink) (top)
FenianKiwi
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comparison of what?
Comparison of acts in relation to one another. Theft is generally considered as an 'evil' act. Stealing medicine to help a desperate ill child is a good act. Of course, if the theft of the medicine to save a child denied the medicine to other people who will die as a result, the net effect of the theft becomes evil. And so on and so on and so on.


It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no reason whatsoever for supposing it to be true -Bertrand Russell
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