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

To: thames_sider who wrote (31054)	10/6/2001 2:26:13 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

I believe my ideas are in some fundamental sense true or at least some of them, but I accept the fact that others have different opinions and accept the possibility that I am wrong. The reason that I would not say I am a relativist is that I think right and wrong in this context is more then just an opinion. If I thought it was not more then just an opinion then I would not talk about the possibility that I might be wrong because being wrong would be fairly meaningless. If you imagine a line dividing absolutists and relativists I think we are both close to the line but on opposite sides of it. But in practice there is not much difference in how we approach disagreement with our ideas because we are both on the moderate side of our respective camps. In some cases and in some ways moderates on opposite sides of the fence are closer to each other then they are to the extremists, even the extremists on their own side. Tim