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Strong Atheist

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Wed Mar-22-06 12:26 PM
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13. We will have to disagree about "immoral atheists". As for

how a group deals with "moral values", that is the way it is already done; to wit by either majority consensus or force. All group decisions on morality (read: laws) have always been arrived at by one of these two ways.

There is no "moral law" carved in stone somewhere that everyone agrees on, like people can agree on facts (see also:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=214&topic_id=41704&mesg_id=43100

so large groups of people (or small groups with force) impose their tastes on others in the form of laws. That is the way it was, is, and always will be...

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