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Thread #158223   Message #3743530
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
13-Oct-15 - 07:40 AM
Thread Name: BS: The Pope in America
Subject: RE: BS: The Pope in America
You lay out a clear and constant view of morality, Steve, which does in fact imply that every action we do has a moral dimension. It's perhaps the most basic criterion of being human.

Insofar as we become aware of that quality in an animal, or maybe in some robot or alien in a science fiction story, so that what it does is seen as moral or immoral, we regard it as sharing that humanity. We wouldn't see a tree that fell on us as acting immorally. We might see a man who chopped down a tree as acting immorally, depending on circumstances.