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

To: Lane3 who wrote (25642)	9/1/2001 11:09:07 AM
From: gao seng	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

there are two schools of thought. Scientism and theism. The former says there is no purpose to life. I fail to see how this school of thought can produce a democracy in which individual rights supercede those of society. By that I mean society does not have the right to harrass a person for his beliefs, or confiscate his property on a whim, or...

To: Lane3 who wrote (25642)	9/1/2001 12:43:47 PM
From: The Philosopher	Respond to of 82486

My interest in the subject is not what the answer is, because I don't think we can know. My interest is what we, as a society, do with the recognition that there are two schools of thought. Whew. That requires some thinking about. The usual dichotomy is that the process is more important than the result. But you've gone a step further; theprocess of thinking about the dichotomy is more important than resolving it. Interesting thought. Thanks for it. I'll mull it.