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Wonder of wonders!!!! I may be in agreement,slightly, with Rosen.
Actually a second time since I said that censorship of porn was untenable but
not intrinsically evil.

It turns out that human acts can be:
 BAD     GOOD      or neutral.

Now say something exists. I can destroy it or I can build upon it or
I can leave it alone.

It is true that some moral philosphers claim neutrality is impossible, but
the accepted mainstream line is that the third possiblity is valid.

What about Jeff Sargeant's points..
Well Constructive is positive  agreed!
     Destructive is negative   agreed!
     But
     LEAVE ALONE is neutral and is allowed for when one says that something
     is neither destructive nor constructive.


By the way the principle of double effect often rears its head with neutral
actions.

Marchionni