"Nadav Har'El" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I view the law as an approximation of Kant's Categorical Imperative - > which means roughly (for people who are not familiar with Kant's theory) > that if you want certain ethical rules to apply toward you (e.g., I should > not be killed!) you must make them a rule to be applied by everyone toward > everyone.
Can we declare philosophy off-topic here once and for all? The above is empirically wrong, by the way: "I should not be killed" all too often implies "I should kill others", and it's perfectly ethical by any (sane) definition... -- Oleg Goldshmidt | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================================= "... Of theoretical physics and programming, programming embodied the greater intellectual challenge." [E.W.Dijkstra, 1930 - 2002.] ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
