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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wouldn't "justice" happen when that student appeals to the professor's superiors and gets a grade change and the teacher is chastised or fired for grading like that?[/quote]

Indeed.  But that would involve a...Higher Authority.  ;)[/quote]

I think atheists believe that people have employers.  And that countries have laws and police forces and jails.[/quote]

Right, but where does this "authority" that judges and police officers claim to have come from if not from the Ultimate Authority??  :)

I swear, sometimes it's as though the 18th century never happened.

(Fixed the quote thing)[/quote]

Are you trying to hint that England is the "Ultimate Authority"? Please see: American History for details of the formation of our executive and legislative branches of government. [/quote]

No, but you make a good point.  I was joking about the popular pre-Enlightenment argument that the power of authority figures necessarily derives from God.  And that without God, there is no such thing as authority.  Of course, that was before Rousseau and Locke.  And I'm not talking about "Lost".  :)[/quote]

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