We've definitely exhausted the subject. But I can't resist two things. 1. Ethics is the study of moral systems. The following parallelism seems to work. Ethics is to systems of morality as psychology is to whatever it is that psychologists study. An ethical theory is to ethics as behaviorism is to psychology.
2. Nick wrote, Rather than say that because I know what it is to have muscle pain, I feel my old dog's pain when he walks with a limp, it makes more sense to say that I touch painful walking through the dog. No, don't laugh. Think about the last time you hit a tennis ball. Think about the feel of the ball, of its resistance. Great feeling, huh! No. Hold on! You lied to me! I have to bet you have NEVER hit a tennis ball in your life! The RACKET hit the tennis ball. And just as the racket can become in instrument for feeling a ball, an old dog can become an instrument for touching pain. In particular you wrote, "just as the racket can become [an] instrument for feeling a ball". Since you continue to use phrases like "feeling the ball" I can't understand why you object when I use the same sort of phrase. Also, if it makes you feel better to say "touch" rather than "feel" I guess I'll just understand you to mean "feel" when you say "touch," and you should translate my use of "feel" to be "touch" in your language. I assume also that when you said "feel the ball", you really meant to say "touch the ball" but that you slipped up. Is that right, or were you deliberately distinguishing between feeling and touching? If so,what distinction you are trying to convey? -- Russ
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