X-Message-Number: 9241 Date: Wed, 04 Mar 98 17:40:45 From: Mike Perry <> Subject: Values Can values be right or wrong? One thought is that a sadist may be said to have wrong values in that he/she wants to do harm to others. The values are wrong in the sense that coercion is justified in preventing the end they motivate. I have thought about this issue in connection with the problem of whether such people would be "curable" without sacrificing their identity. I think they would, in a reasonable sense, because one could undergo rather profound changes in certain ways, while retaining impressions of an earlier disposition, which would seem like oneself rather than another person. Mike Perry Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=9241