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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (23334)	8/20/2001 2:00:43 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

I don't recall saying it was accurate. I said that my way of putting things was accurate, but called what he said "fair comment". I have pondered your objection. Since I do not think justice has a moral, as opposed to anthropological meaning, if it is purely arbitrary, I still think that what brees said was fair comment......

To: Lane3 who wrote (23334)	8/20/2001 2:36:16 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Here are some relatively mild comments. There are plenty of others expressed with more belligerence: Message 15667586 They aren't small to us. But then they aren't very real to us either- in any concrete sense, or even in any sense of consistency. Justice, for example. What is it? How far back do you go in the seeking of what is just? Do you include the injustice that we are all born with wiring that somewhat determines us? People tend to know what result they want, and go just far enough back to seek the kind of "justice" they desire. Almost anything can be worked up as just if you finesse the timeline. It's a limited way to see things, imo. It's certainly a social convenience to have a word like justice around. Because then when people don't behave the way the group wants them to, you can punish them and say "THIS is justice." Justice is the WD-40 of social life. But to expect such an expedient type of notion to show up in the universe seems strange to me. siliconinvestor.com Objective reality? I see no evidence for that at all, especially for humans. I see humans all over the world making their own subjective realities. In some of those realities there are all sorts of Gods and Devils and Angels. In other realities people find objectivity in science, or philosophy. In some (like mine) there are only questions with no answers. Of course you may be seeing something else, in your other reality. There could be an objective reality, but it doesn't seem to matter since we can't know what it is.