From: snow <snow@smoke.suba.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 06:26:18 -0800 (PST)
To: Dale Thorn <dthorn@gte.net>
Subject: Re: Dr. Vulis' social engineering experiment
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Thorn:
> Alec wrote:
> The idea that "sin" and "evil" are abstract and somewhat arbitrary is
> merely a human (and therefore faulty) perception.
> If God can be perfect by definition (for sake of argument), then "sin"

     Somewhere in the above three lines, someone is making a hell of an
asumption. See also "The Euthphro Question", plato.

> A gentleman wrote to Southern Partisan magazine a few years ago and
> said "Real freedom is not the license to do whatever you want, but
> rather the liberty to do what you ought to do".

     No, real freedom is being able to decide for yourself what you ought to
do--or--who the hell decides what I ought to do?