>I hate this kind of argument. I always picture the advocate of this view
>watching a puppy being tortured and inwardly reproaching himself for his
>bourgeois sentimental feelings of outrage.
this is what carrol wrote on 3/20 under the glen beck thread:
>It's odd that some cannot imagine anger or delight except in the context
>of a full affirmation of Aristotle's or Calvin's ethics! I'm trying to
>imagine someone viewing the film CIA agents torturing a suspect but before
>reacting quic kly turns the pages of his/her favorite book of ethics to
>see if there is cosmic foundation for being pissed off. The so-called
>"post-moderns" had a lot to say abut foundationalism, and that is the
>issue at stake in deciding whether only a moral metaphysics can found a
>rejection of capitalism.