Re: CHAT: Hello
From: | Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...> |
Date: | Wednesday, May 2, 2001, 19:39 |
Roger Mills wrote:
[snip]
This is probably somewhat OT, but I thought I'd ask anyway. This bit:
>In what way are murder, theft, or adultery
>"sins"-- crimes yes, but that's a legal matter isn't it? If I commit an
>offense against my society, the society has ways of dealing with it-- what
>does "God" have to do with it? If I offend my neighbor, surely it's up to
>me to make amends, if at all possible; and if I do so adequately, then it's
>up to my neighbor to accept it, and we get on with our lives.
doesn't seem to go very well with this bit:
>Re the Declaration of Human Rights: they would ask, "what's with you
>people,
>that you have to be _told_ how to live in harmony with one another?"
>(Also,
>it's just too long and dreary to translate....)
If the Kash need a legal code, then surely they need being told how to live
in harmony with one another? That kind of the meaning of legal code, telling
people that ...
Andreas
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