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Originally Posted by roachboy
to say that you would use moral criteria to make an evaluation, ustwo, is not the same as saying that a particular issue is a moral one. the first is about judgment. the second is a statement about the kind of argument that is appropriate to a given issue.
on the first, you assume that right/wrong is exclusively a moral matter.
that does not seem to me to be accurate.
it could just as easily be a true/false evaluation. or an aesthetic evaluation. or any number of other kinds of judgment--there are many ways to yeild a right/wrong response.
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I never claimed all decisions were moral ones.
I will claim that wheel chair ramps are most definately a moral decision imposed by law.