"Ron" > wrote
> "Dutch" > wrote:
[..]
> > >> > Hmm. So it is subjectively wrong (ie. relative to time and
location) or
> > >> > absolutely wrong (universal through time and space) to be an
accomplice
> > >> > or accessory.
> > >>
> > >> It depends on the nature of the act to which you are an accomplice
and
> > >> the
> > >> nature of the complicity. Every case requires a moral and/or legal
> > >> evaluation.
> > >
> > > Buying pot for glaucoma treatment and buying pot for selling to
> > > teenagers is the SAME act. Please describe the differences in the
> > > *actions* to warrant different moral or legal responses.
> >
> > One relieves the symptoms of a disease, the other condemns young people
to a
> > life of menial jobs and unfulfilled potential.
>
> My question was, what is different about the actions?
I answered it.
>
> > Two actions may be identical in physical form
>
> Thank you, so they are identical actions that are treated and regarded
> differently despite your claims that they are not the same actions.
The same actions in different circumstances.
> > but completely dissimiliar
> > when the entire circumstances are assessed morally. You must know this
or
> > else you are sociopathic.
>
> The circumstances are the the same.
No they aren't. The presence of the disease of glaucoma is a different
circumstance.
> The reasoning or thinking is what is
> being assessed and having label of morality applied.
No, there is an actual physically different set of circumstances in this
instance.
> What you are calling moral, is merely a question of what is popular and
> socially acceptable. I grew out of that phase by the 8th grade. If being
> an assertive adults constitutes being a sociopath then, so be it.
You have a complex about *not* being thought of as a child, resulting in the
adoption of childish notions. Ironic..
> I imagine then that your willingness to agree with what is popular or
> common is an avoidance to be labeled as a sociopath. Keeping you in line
> is a breeze.
Your self-professed "free thinking" is a pose. You are a prisoner of your
abject fear of being viewed as "normal" or "conventional" or "a child" of
being manipulated or controlled. You have lost all objectivity as a result.
You are just as "in line" as I am, except that I understand why.
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