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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: gao seng who wrote (25626)9/1/2001 10:08:55 AM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) of 82486
 
Whether Western democracies built on earlier worldviews that affirmed objective truth and trans-cultural absolutes can survive postmodernist skepticism remains to be seen.

Western democracies are constructed around law and the notion of the equality of citizens under the law. All those who respect those things contribute to the success of the democracy. Those who don't, don't. People who are sincerely concerned about the survival of our democracies and have a modicum of common sense recognize the former as the "good guys" and the latter as the "bad guys."

Now, we have some people who apparently don't put their priority on the survival of the democracies. They are driving an unnecessary wedge between two different subsets of good guys by distinguishing between those good guys who respect our laws and their fellow citizens based on their belief in the absolute truth of their beliefs from those good guys who respect our laws and their fellow citizens for some other reason. They insist on lumping the latter in with the bad guys. They seem to me to be confusing the criteria for what makes a good citizen of a democracy with the criteria for admittance into heaven and, in doing so, alienating their natural allies in making modern democracies a success. For those who care about the survival of democratic society, this irony is unsettling. And the sheer wrong-headedness of it is jarring.

Karen
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