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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: one_less who wrote (59966)9/26/2002 4:58:12 PM
From: The Philosopher  Read Replies (2) of 82486
 
In a later post he took the stricter position I laid out.

But I'm letting him recant without penalty.

But still, you have to ask, who judges whether the reason for rebelling is acceptable? Presumably it will have to accord with some other social norm, which means simply that you are pointing out a conflict between different social norms. But if you totally reject a social norm, is the society likely to accept that as being good? Not, I think, very often. Socrates . . . Galileo . . . the list is lengthy.
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