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NSW Labor's diseased ethics : Comments

By Tony Smith, published 7/2/2013

As former ministers front an inquiry into decisions allegedly taken to favour political friends, the corruption disease seems to be confined to the NSW Labor Party.

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Robert

I actually agree with all you say although you again fail to acknowledge that without a moral basis right and wrong are made up by each individual.
Posted by runner, Friday, 8 February 2013 9:21:26 AM
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runner, I suspect we do have common ground on that but you stop some steps short. The choice of the god thiests believe in and the verion of that faith is primarily a matter of the culture people are raised in and where its not that it stillinvolves choice outside of absolutes just the values of non-thiests will most often be based around the values of the society people grow up in and involves choice.

Individuals will be more focussed on different aspects of that culture than others and the predominant values will shift over time but believers and non believers still either go with the cultural environment or make a choice themselves about what they believe. The end result still gets back to absolutes.

If there was a clear case of thiests all believing the same set of absolutes across time and distance and non-thiests just making up whatever they wanted you would have a case but thats not the reality.

In the case of what the article describes I don't think its a left right thing as the author seems to be implying, rather that a mindset thats about power and self serving behaviours holds sway across most if not all of the political landscape. Those who conform to the current set of values will generally thrive more than those fighting parts of it.

R0ber
Posted by R0bert, Friday, 8 February 2013 11:05:32 AM
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