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Originally Posted by TGS
So the moral constraint arises from wanting to avoid feeling guilty.
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I think there has to be a 'selfish' basis to it, I can't see how it would work otherwise.
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Originally Posted by TGS
And from doing unto others as I would have them do unto me, (except that I am not a puppy, so there would need to be another step in the argument to get from me throwing a puppy to someone justifying on that ground throwing me).
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Why another step, a puppy is as much of an other to you as I am?
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Originally Posted by TGS
Is there not any sense in which puppy throwing is just plain wrong, regardless of whether anyone knows about it, (so I am not at risk of being thrown about), and I don't feel guilty or in some other way bad when I do it?
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Not as far as I can see; but I'm open to persuasion.