GRGR (15): Good & Evil (was Enzian...)

Terrance F. Flaherty Lycidas at worldnet.att.net
Sun Dec 5 10:53:20 CST 1999



Paul Mackin wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, Michael Perez wrote:
> 
> > rj wrote:
> > "Yes, these are questions the text leaves the reader with. Unanswered
> > questions. Or, relativism and ambiguity accrue because there are too
> > many answers, too many possibilities, crowding in on top of one
> > another, each one depending on context and perspective for its local
> > 'truth.' [snip]'Good' and 'evil'? Yeah, right. Not in this Text, fella.
> > The only moral compass here is the one in the reader's hand: 'There is
> > time, if you need the comfort, to touch the person next to you, or to
> > reach between your own cold legs . . . '"
> >
> > Exactly.  This is sort of what I getting at since the beginning of this
> > wonderfully mutant thread.
> 
> Hard to keep one's moral compass from twirling incessantly.
> 
>                         p.
> 


But it's only the moral compass YOU thought was your own,
right?

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