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Politics : Right Wing Extremist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jlallen who wrote (111)	1/3/2001 8:55:00 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 59480

The difference is this: the application of principle allows room for discussion, given the complexity of circumstance. Liberals take ethical disagreement to mean that there are no serious principles underlying the discussion. But the denial of principle is, in the end, an assertion that the outcome is arbitrary, and thus belies any attempt to be conscientious, and invalidates the attempt to settle matters by argument. In the end, settlement of moral difference becomes a matter of force or deception. Interestingly, when the sophists invoked the principle that might makes right in ancient Greece, they meant that the will of the demos determined rightness, and, ultimately, that the man who knew how to sway the demos with rhetoric had the most power. Pandering to the people's passions is the end result of relativism. The greatest sophist, Protagoras, is the one who coined the maxim "Man is the measure of all things"........