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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: Lane3 who wrote (61883)10/9/2002 1:30:02 PM
From: Neocon  Read Replies (1) of 82486
 
A couple of questions occurred to me: if self- interest is the final arbiter of morality, shouldn't we have a duty to learn? It is obviously better for us than ignorance. Isn't it common to feel humiliated when one doesn't know something that seems to be common knowledge? (That would indicate the operation of the internalized value). And don't we generally have contempt for those who are scatterbrained, obsessed with trivialities, remarkably uninformed, and/or incompetent for their position? At best, the incompetent attorney, full of bluster to hide his ignorance, is a comic figure of ridicule, for example......
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