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#120163 01/16/2004 9:26 AM
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pretty please :]


#120164 01/16/2004 11:29 AM
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from Encarta:
de·on·tol·o·gy
noun
logic of moral obligation: the study of what is obligatory, permissible, right, or wrong, in moral terms

[Early 19th century. Coined from Greek deont- , the present participle stem of dein “to be wanting, be needful” + -logy.]




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#120165 01/16/2004 1:27 PM
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Well, does deontology recapitulate teleology? That's what I would like to know ...


#120166 01/16/2004 1:31 PM
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Are you asking how to disturb each opponent's no trump game? I can tell you that: take all the tricks you can!


#120167 01/16/2004 4:45 PM
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well, I was hopin' some kind pertswn might take up the hintsuwm

but no tricks really ;)


#120168 01/16/2004 5:36 PM
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I could ask my ont, since I haven't met a physics teacher yet...



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#120169 01/16/2004 5:53 PM
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if you're hinting that I have some sort of familial obligation (as it were), why don't you just come out and whinge a bit?!
-ron hogvious


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tsuwm - It does, once again, make me wonder which came first 'the chicken or the egg'.


#120171 01/16/2004 9:19 PM
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whinge bleat whinge bleat whinge bleat



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