- Here's my e-mail to eagleyes. We'll see how they respond...
Hello eagleyes,
Thanks & God bless!
Believer
- -----Original Message----- From: Mike Lusicic [mailto:lusicic@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 21:39
relativism at all.
Your list of examples of moral relativism is not IMHO examples of moral
It is a schedule of punishment to fit the degree of wrong done,
And that's exactly the point. There are shades of gray in *everything*. There is no black/white 'right is right and wrong is wrong'. It's all 'relative'.
I would like to see someone like that not NEED to claim it as a find andhave a tremendous amount of fun
in just doing things like this and not even worry about counting it ornot.
I just think they will feel better in the long run.
Would agree with the first part, but obviously logging the find is what makes this guy 'feel better in the long run'.....regardless of what you or I think. Given that he drove down to the location from Minnesota, apparently has some sort of chronic medical condition that creates a need to wear knee braces, and had to deal with that condition to climb a lengthy set of steps to get to the 'spot', then a little 'moral relativism' seems perfectly appropriate. This isn't some 10 yr old kid who needs to be taught life lessons. For him, the 'getting there' wasn't fun in this case.....it was a struggle. Of course, that assumes his medical condition isn't BS. And I'll assume he's innocent unitl proven guilty on that one.
If he routinely used his medical condition as an excuse to log a find when it was truly a DNF....even when the cache was only 50 steps from his car, your point would be stronger. But we don't know that's the case.
Thanks for your thoughts on what I said. Sometimes it is hard to tell whether I have expressed myself adequately or not in this medium,
Yep, email is not always conducive to optimal communication. And you've explained you're opinion as well as can probably be done. We'll just have to agree to disagree. IMO, there is room for 'moral relativism'. Doesn't mean I think every time someone had an 'excuse' to log a DNF as a find that they should be allowed to do so. But considering the circumstances of this one instance, I don't think it would be unreasonable. And it sounds as though Believer has taken a reasonable approach to making that decision.
-= Russ =- (BotFee)