Alien52 Posted December 8, 2011 Share Posted December 8, 2011 Be excellent to each other. Party on dudes. And I am only 9. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeffrey Shaw Posted December 8, 2011 Share Posted December 8, 2011 Which makes them pretty pointless to base a system of law on. But, yet again, they're not a basis for a system of law- rather, an objective benchmark for morality against which to test one's own favoured type. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sccsux Posted December 8, 2011 Share Posted December 8, 2011 an objective benchmark for morality against which to test one's own favoured type. Which they clearly are not. Or are you trying to say that slavery is moral? Also... What is immoral about blasphemy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sccsux Posted December 8, 2011 Share Posted December 8, 2011 See post 2 The post you referred to is nothing to do with the "seven laws" under discussion, which is what you asked about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeffrey Shaw Posted December 8, 2011 Share Posted December 8, 2011 Which they clearly are not. Or are you trying to say that slavery is moral? Also... What is immoral about blasphemy? I'm not 'trying to say' anything. I am stating what a set of rules prescribes, whether you like it or not (and irrespective of agreement). Slavery, in this context, means two things, by the way. Don't confuse them! They are: 1. USA-type subjugation, abolished there but still regrettably practised in Asia/Africa: bad. 2. Fixed-term indentured labour (e.g. to repay to the employer what the employee stole or owes): not so bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flamingjimmy Posted December 8, 2011 Share Posted December 8, 2011 I'm not 'trying to say' anything. I am stating what a set of rules prescribes, whether you like it or not (and irrespective of agreement). Slavery, in this context, means two things, by the way. Don't confuse them! They are: 1. USA-type subjugation, abolished there but still regrettably practised in Asia/Africa: bad. 2. Fixed-term indentured labour (e.g. to repay to the employer what the employee stole or owes): not so bad. They are both utterly despicable, the fact that one type is worse than the other doesn't change that. Also, you've forgotten the third type, practised by the Israelites in the Old Testament all the time, and that is taking the women of your defeated opponents as sex slaves. To suggest that we should use the morals of such people as a basis for our own is at best laughable, and at worst disgusting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeffrey Shaw Posted December 8, 2011 Share Posted December 8, 2011 Also, you've forgotten the third type, practised by the Israelites in the Old Testament all the time, and that is taking the women of your defeated opponents as sex slaves. Wrong, as usual. You really don't know very much about what happened then, do you? Read Josephus, then post back here [in that order, please]. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flamingjimmy Posted December 8, 2011 Share Posted December 8, 2011 Be excellent to each other. Party on dudes. And I am only 9. You forgot 'do not do your homework, unless you are wearing headphones' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sccsux Posted December 8, 2011 Share Posted December 8, 2011 I'm not 'trying to say' anything. Yes you are, why else post on here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RootsBooster Posted December 8, 2011 Share Posted December 8, 2011 But, yet again, they're not a basis for a system of law- rather, an objective benchmark for morality against which to test one's own favoured type. uhmmm...... Any legal system, and any religion's own rules, needs benchmarking objectively. That's the Seven Laws, in a nutshell. .....what? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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