On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 11:42:10 GMT, (Doug Miller)
wrote:

In article , Mark Lloyd wrote:
On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 12:34:03 -0700, DerbyDad03

-- Nonsense. The word has a clearly defined and easily understood
meaning: within, or allowed by, law.

That's as useful as saying a "snaxgluff" is the same thing as an
"emwoozle". This could be 100% true, but is still meaningless Defining
an undefined word by reference to another undefined word doesn't
define anything.

Actually, most adults are capable of understanding the difference between real
words and made-up nonsense, and that the former have real meaning while the
latter do not.

And you appear to have missed the point of that, which you saw and
snipped.


Who knows the difference between 'unlawful' and 'illegal'?

It's amazing that some people spend so much time on artificial
constructs such as "unlawful" and "illegal", yet appear to have no
concept of the world they inhabit where things can be "wrong" or
"harmful" (something which is entirely independent of laws).

"Artificial constructs" or not, those words do have meaning.

Very little actual meaning. Essentially, they're descriptions of
things going on in certain people's minds. There's nothing there to
keep those people from being mentally disturbed and having thoughts
with no correspondence to reality.

At one time whisky was illegal. Did that make whisky any different? If
there's something wrought about whisky, it's wrong regardless of what
the law says. Notice how whisky was not changed, just the law.

(considering something else that got snipped), if you had to be hit on
the head with something, would you prefer it to be a brick or a law?

What if they passed a law saying that bricks can't hurt when thrown?
Does the law actually change the brick?

And that is not
altered by your perceptions of whether they correspond to your perceptions of
right and wrong.

"My perceptions" have nothing to do with it.
--
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Mark Lloyd
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"Unlike biological evolution. 'intelligent design' is
not a genuine scientific theory and, therefore, has
no place in the curriculum of our nation's public
school classes." -- Ted Kennedy