Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxn.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxn!rlr From: rlr@pyuxn.UUCP (Rich Rosen) Newsgroups: net.motss Subject: Re: Dyer claims the moral high ground! Message-ID: <955@pyuxn.UUCP> Date: Fri, 3-Aug-84 12:38:43 EDT Article-I.D.: pyuxn.955 Posted: Fri Aug 3 12:38:43 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 4-Aug-84 03:24:22 EDT References: <2983@decwrl.UUCP> <1100@ihuxq.UUCP> Organization: Bell Communications Research, Piscataway N.J. Lines: 12 > Homosexuality may not be normative behavior, but that's not > the same as bad. Surely you're not suggesting morals by > majority vote. I think that's EXACTLY what's being suggested: morality by historical consensus. Apparently such a historical consensus can only be changed by "morally justifying" something on the basis of the previous consensus, and then only if it's ratified by an eleven tenths majority of the population. :-) -- "Come with me now to that secret place where the eyes of man have never set foot." Rich Rosen pyuxn!rlr