----- Original Message ----- From: "Ian Murray" <seamus2001 at home.com> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 9:33 PM Subject: Re: Sociology and Explanations (Re: Hitchens responds to critics From
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Luke Weiger" <lweiger at umich.edu>
> >
> > Yep. I hoped no one was going to call me on that, and, if not for
> your
> > presence at the moment, it probably would've. I assumed utilitarian
> > principles not because I am one (although that happens to be the
> case) ...
> >
> > -- Luke
> >
> =========
> Practicing holding two contradictory thoughts together in near
> simultaneity are we?
>
> Ian
Umm, no. I may be a theist and assume the existence of God for the sake of argument to disprove the divine command theory of morality. I would be making this assumption not because I believe in God (although in this hypothetical that happens to be the case) but because I wanted to make a point.
-- Luke