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

To: Neocon who wrote (61033)	10/4/2002 11:38:39 AM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

So correctness does not enter into it? We're right back at the point we were at two hundred posts ago. Correctness as judged by who? Presumably they think their ideas are correct. Presumably you do not. What gives you any right to say that their correctness is the correct correctness, and their correctness isn't? And don't give me the pap about what "everybody" thinks. Because at one time "everybody" thought slavery was just ducky, putting 7 year old children to work in the coal mines 14 hours a day was God's will, burning heretics was a moral duty, the Jews killed Jesus and should be slaughtered for that sin, and on and on. A resort to counting noses may be a way to decide who should be the President, but it is NOT a reliable guide to what is true and what is false. (If it were, the ideas of the Naval Academy middies would trump those of St. Johnnies every time.) IMO, it is pure arrogance to think that you have the truth for everybody else. Pure arrogance. You have your truth. They have their truth. They are different. Fine. If you think your truth is better than theirs, go try to persuade them of that. But don't belittle them or insult them by believing that they are deliberately choosing what they know to be incorrectness over what they know to be correctness. That is the ultimate hubris.