I don't believe that there's anything right/wrong or good/bad.
This position may change in the future, but given what I've seen, this hypothesis is the only thing that makes logical sense to me.
Maybe some things are so obvious that you overlook them when you are in full scientific-logical mode.
For instance, when you want to add something to your fries, and you see on the counter a bottle of ketchup and a spray of insecticide, then you can distinguish good and bad well enough to choose the ketchup.
Human constructs are not wholly arbitrary, even though they evolve and change, which they do because we grow and learn as a species.
Maybe you cannot coneive of a logical proof why liberal democracy is better than a Hitler-led dictatorship, or a murderous religious fanaticism for that matter, but I have enough faith in you to believe that you will opt for the liberal democracy, and that you will see it's better not to treat women as such second-class citizens and to deny them education, and certainly not to kill them because you feel they impaired your honor, and you do not think it is alright to execute gays because they are suppose to be a religious abomination. Given your intellectual predilections, of course you think free speech is good, and you would shrink under a repressive regime that barred everything but the Koran and what is deemed supportive of the Koran.
I think you know these things deep down, but you just have yet to work it into your philosophy.
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Re: Agree to Disagree
Date: 2007-07-12 02:45 am (UTC)From:This position may change in the future, but given what I've seen, this hypothesis is the only thing that makes logical sense to me.
Maybe some things are so obvious that you overlook them when you are in full scientific-logical mode.
For instance, when you want to add something to your fries, and you see on the counter a bottle of ketchup and a spray of insecticide, then you can distinguish good and bad well enough to choose the ketchup.
Human constructs are not wholly arbitrary, even though they evolve and change, which they do because we grow and learn as a species.
Maybe you cannot coneive of a logical proof why liberal democracy is better than a Hitler-led dictatorship, or a murderous religious fanaticism for that matter, but I have enough faith in you to believe that you will opt for the liberal democracy, and that you will see it's better not to treat women as such second-class citizens and to deny them education, and certainly not to kill them because you feel they impaired your honor, and you do not think it is alright to execute gays because they are suppose to be a religious abomination. Given your intellectual predilections, of course you think free speech is good, and you would shrink under a repressive regime that barred everything but the Koran and what is deemed supportive of the Koran.
I think you know these things deep down, but you just have yet to work it into your philosophy.