On Aug 2, 2009, at 11:32 AM, Carrol Cox wrote:
> What you are doing is verbal trickery. You simply rename politics
> morality and say, See! But you can't do that. You can deny that
> "morality" is about people, buyt every time "morality" enters
> political
> discussion in a serious way, the end result is the attempt to purge
> individuals from the left as "bad people." The Iranian discussion of
> was
> completely empty of political principle: it was solely and nakedly an
> effort to purge certain people from "the left" as bad people. You
> stayed
> out of that mess to some extent, but you couldn't quite resist the
> stupid moral outburst, "What's wrong with you people?"
Morality is simple self interest. Most of us believe that if all are equal, and none are denied, then the conditions of life improve for all. That's communism. Science might even agree with that moral principle, but would require a 'study'.
martin