"some of these codes of behavior have lasted a thousand years or more for a reason."

I make no blanket generalizations about morality circa midieval catholic church, but notice that a LOT of their moral codes have ALSO been discarted as anathema to modern civilization, and with good reason!!! (recall the crusades and the papal edict dividing South America beween spain and portugal? Witch hunts? Divine Right Of Kings?)

The main point was that I am bored by easily refutable, obscure recyclings of scholastic-period philosophy. Not that all arguments of that time are necessarily incorrect based on their age, or that any argument can be jusged on that basis.

careful there, tom... ;-)

Davin L.