You have done well neutralizing my arguments but not so much in hiding them from scrutiny. Jim Choate <ravage@ssz.com> wrote:

On 28 Feb 2001, LUIS VILDOSOLA wrote:

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It's all in the timing.

Right and wrong have timing? I think not.

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If the censors are the last to judge,

Censors are the first to judge. 'a priori' effectively means 'before'.

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they self proclaim the right to punish or take corrective action.

What censor ever took a self-proclaimed right to censor and actually got away with it? You cast censorship as if it were a private/personal act when in fact it's a societal act, many against one. If it's couched in anything it's a mis-applied concept of self-defence.

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So justice is held in a pyramid scheme where those not fortunate or not able to be on top are by definition the only liable to be judged by terrestrial powers.

That's not justice, that human nature. Don't have a clue how we got into talking about space aliens (ie terrestrial powers).

Are you mean transcendental as in religious?

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The odd thing about this is judgments are punitive in nature, so those at the bottom slip further down; distancing the judging party from the judged. Kind of a reinforcing cycle.

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Can you think of mechanisms to trigger this cycle Jim?

I'm not sure what 'cycle' you mean.

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