From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: ** X-Spam-Status: No, score=2.8 required=5.0 tests=AC_FROM_MANY_DOTS,BAYES_50, INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,1efdd369be089610 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,1d8ab55e71d08f3d X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public From: Wes Groleau Subject: Re: Rand Kant Hegel with Aristotle ? Date: 1997/07/02 Message-ID: <33BA8326.6044@does.not.exist.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 254094262 Sender: usenet@most.fw.hac.com (News Administration) X-Nntp-Posting-Host: sparc02 References: <33B014E3.3343@no.such.com> <5oqp9s$7vj$1@news.nyu.edu> <5p9iu3$fjp@delphi.cs.ucla.edu> Organization: See Warning Below! Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,gnu.misc.discuss Date: 1997-07-02T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: > > The "Golden Rule" is well defined, even in the abstract. It causes > > one to reflect as to what the consequences of action are. > > The Golden Rule is hopeless as an ethical test, .... it does > not really work in a critical environment. This has nothing to do with Ada, and little to do with GNU, but... The "Golden Rule" comes with its own interpretation. The original formulation of "So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets." was by Jesus Christ who also said that "all the law and the prophets" depend on two commandments, of which the second is "Love your neighbor as yourself." He went on to clarify "neighbor" and He and His followers have gone into great detail on the nature of love (which, by the way, differs considerably from the popular understanding in that it has very little to do with "feeling"). (Just to head it off before it happens: the common response that many of His alleged followers do not live that way is TOTALLY IRRELEVANT to whether or not the advice is good.) -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Wes Groleau, Hughes Defense Communications, Fort Wayne, IN USA Senior Software Engineer - AFATDS Tool-smith Wanna-be wwgrol AT pseserv3.fw.hac.com Don't send advertisements to this domain unless asked! All disk space on fw.hac.com hosts belongs to either Hughes Defense Communications or the United States government. Using email to store YOUR advertising on them is trespassing! ----------------------------------------------------------------------