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Thread #132816   Message #3013012
Posted By: Amos
22-Oct-10 - 10:38 AM
Thread Name: BS: The 'moral' Atheist?
Subject: RE: BS: The 'moral' Atheist?
The fact that survival is a critical central vector in decisions of rightness and wrongness does not justify the assertion that different things are the same: "Motive = motivation = emotion = motion ".

Emotion and motion are different, if related, and neither is "the same as" motivation. Unless you're redefining "=" as well. But that would really be running amok, semantically!


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