RE: How Many Trees? (WAS: URGENT: Immediate ethical issue)

["Gillespie, Stephen (Contractor)" <Stephen -dot- Gillespie -at- Persnet -dot- Navy -dot- Mil>]

Mark Baker replies to my post with a false analogy:

<No. The fact that one act may violate three different standards of behavior
does not mean that those standards of behavior are not distinct from each
other.

If I drive at high speed across an interternational border with an expired
driver's licence and a trunk full of cocaine while shooting the border
guards, I am guilty of several crimes:

* speeding
* driving without a license
* drug trafficking
* smuggling
* murder

One act involved all these crimes, but speeding and murder are still
entirely different issues.>


OK, I guess it depends on how you define 'distinct' (says Steve, who by now
is reminded of the ancient proverb: "A word to the wise is sufficient, but
to the foolish, a million, is useless."  ;-)

Have a good one!
scg

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