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

To: Neocon who wrote (24270)	8/23/2001 10:44:06 AM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Yes, if we cannot reach conclusions without a full understanding of the fundamental nature of humans and society, we will simply have to do without conclusions. I for one have no problem with that; I do not feel that my life is rendered futile by the acknowledgement that I will never know the fundamental nature of my species or its societies. It is some consolation to realize that nobody else will ever know it either. I can speculate; so can we all. We will not, however, be able to base any conclusion on speculation. The PM-OP dichotomy seems quite irrelevant to me: I think just about everyone has some sort of principles and morals. The debate primarily revolves around where those principles and morals came from, the process by which they change, and the extent to which some people can reasonably impose them on other people. All questions far too complex to break down into a matter of good guys vs. bad guys, appealing though that notion may be to those of very simple mind.