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3leggedfrog · 09-11-2003, 01:59 PM

Tirian
hmm ok please go easy on me with this one but a it could have been her goal to show that is she good to the christian god. her reward was his/her approval. also one could argue that she was looking for "browie points" to get into heavan due to the fact that the life she was living was close to the end and her standard of living was very poor. We can speculate that she wanted a better afterlife.

johnnymysto love the avatar. to answer your reply what was the motivation to go into traffic and save the man? was the motivation temporarily stronger than self preservation. yes so what was the motivation?

sipsake what do you mean that the situation may not be selfish? what happens when you take away the motivation and keep the situation will the person still act the same way? the likey out-come is no. so while the out-come was good the act itself was not.

irseg. your point of doing something because we hate it is the only possible way to do good is wrong. while if you follow the logic of the argument that seems a likly statement its not. because doing something we hate mean that we are not doing the act of our own free will. so someone must be forcing us to do this act and the only reason we would do this act is prevent the bad consequences from not doing it. that is selfish.

viejo gringo, sr, i have great respect for your age and wisdom, but could you please clarify what you mean by waiting to your age. to me this argument is very cut and dry. what have i missed sir?

09-11-2003, 01:59 PM	#45 (permalink)
3leggedfrog Psycho Location: Hiding from the penguins they come to take my sanity away!	Tirian hmm ok please go easy on me with this one but a it could have been her goal to show that is she good to the christian god. her reward was his/her approval. also one could argue that she was looking for "browie points" to get into heavan due to the fact that the life she was living was close to the end and her standard of living was very poor. We can speculate that she wanted a better afterlife. johnnymysto love the avatar. to answer your reply what was the motivation to go into traffic and save the man? was the motivation temporarily stronger than self preservation. yes so what was the motivation? sipsake what do you mean that the situation may not be selfish? what happens when you take away the motivation and keep the situation will the person still act the same way? the likey out-come is no. so while the out-come was good the act itself was not. irseg. your point of doing something because we hate it is the only possible way to do good is wrong. while if you follow the logic of the argument that seems a likly statement its not. because doing something we hate mean that we are not doing the act of our own free will. so someone must be forcing us to do this act and the only reason we would do this act is prevent the bad consequences from not doing it. that is selfish. viejo gringo, sr, i have great respect for your age and wisdom, but could you please clarify what you mean by waiting to your age. to me this argument is very cut and dry. what have i missed sir? __________________ "enjoy life to the brim but do not spill it" quoted off my tatoo "Iam myself every day." Last edited by 3leggedfrog; 09-11-2003 at 02:31 PM..