----- Original Message -----
From: "Carrol Cox" <cbcox at ilstu.edu>
>
> What we want to do is stop raping and murdering. And we can certainly
> condemn the actions without making moral judgments of the actors. I
> don't see what's gained.
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To condemn an action is to make a moral judgement.
>
> >
> > >
> > > I don't disagree with Yeats's "How can you tell the dancer from the
> > > dance," except that in critique, polemics, etc. it is the dance
> > > (considered in abstraction from the dancer) that needs to be praised
or
> > > condemned, because only the dance is repeatable.
> > >
> > > Carrol
> > >
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> >
> > You've just absolved the dancer of intentionality. No two dances are the
> > same.
>
> No two dances are _exactly_ the same. To the extent that we can talk
> about them, they must at some level be the same.
>
> Carrol
>
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You can't make judgments regarding an abstraction without pointing to the responsibility of the agents that intend it's perpetuation and applicability.
Ian