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Old 08-26-2005, 09:42 AM
PairTheBoard PairTheBoard is offline
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Default Re: consistency and ethical positions

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PTB --
"My point is that there often is no one well defined "consistent" way to apply a whole complex of competing moral principles. There is no well defined mathematics for the "proper" way to bring them all into balance."
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David Sklansky --
"There is NEVER a way to consistently apply competing moral principles."

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This was the context of David's statement. I think it's clear we were talking about Competing principles, not Contradictory ones.

You can try creating some kind of vector calculus for competing principles if you like. Maybe it sounds good in theory but I think in practice the complexity would overwhelm the math in short order.

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