Twaddle! You have missed all my points and misstated all my opinions. You realize, of course, that your hero Aristotle thought slavery was natural because some are by nature inferior? Is that the "A" you would have me start with? I, of course, find much of interest in Aristotle's works. He was a great thinker but only one among many. So that you don't missinterpret me I'll state my point clearly. All great thinkers, all doctrines, have their worthy points but they all have their flaws too.
Second, of course I make judgments. I, though, would not attempt to justify them as absolute truth.
Third, I find it fascinating that you can read the mind of a dead man and know what he was feeling as he wrote. Knowing what I do about Dicken's life I find your revelations run counter to what I know historically of the man.
Fourth, I believe I already stated an opinion quite similiar to your own regarding children.
Realism is fine but it is just one of many competing doctrines. If you close your mind to all the rest you are as blind as the religious zealots you obviously despise. To embrace realism is fine, to insist that other people embrace it because you think it is the way, the truth, and the light isn't fair minded and reeks of the kind of totalitarian thought Orwell despised.
Alexa |
