> thrashing
> around for a way to onfirm a long-standing ideological assumption that
> damng it, some things are good and some things arent, and everyone past
> present and future has to know that.
Why is your alternative assumption that there's no objective basis for value judgments not "ideological"?
By the way, the individuals I had in mind as acting out superstitious, prejudiced, sadistic, vengeful feelings were those constitutive of the lynch mobs portrayed here: http://www.withoutsanctuary.org/
An idea of "justice" that makes these actions "just" in some positive sense has absurd implications, doesn't it? This is apart from the fact that it seems inconsistent with the assumption that there's no objective basis for value judgements.
Ted