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

To: Solon who wrote (70971)	7/31/2003 10:53:08 AM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

The path between subjective and objective is a human path. If anything is objective, humans may have subjective opinions about it. When somebody says he has a certainty of some "ABSOLUTE VALUE" we all lose. I'm not sure that is true in all possible cases, even you say later in the same post "sometimes they are harmless" but I see how it is often true. Someone can be sure of an absolute truth, but the truth is such that it won't cause any harm, or they may be sure of some absolute truth but still be tolerant of those who disagree. Its when someone is sure of an absolute truth and feels the need to impose it on others by force that things get dicey, but even here you may not have a problem. Someone who imposes bans on child molestation or mass murder because they think that such things are wrong in an absolute or objective sense is not doing anything signifgantly differently then someone who imposes such bans based on personally or culturally subjective reasons. Tim