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

To: Solon who wrote (82344)	2/10/2010 12:37:45 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

It is true that each day, hour, moment represents mystery in the sense that the future is not totally known and in that sense we couldn't attribute virtue to every one breathing simply for rising with the sun shine. I suppose that defeats my whole argument in that context. I was thinking of mystery differently. I was thinking of mystery as those areas of the unknown which represent a significant challenge that could be avoided by simply going with the daily flow of things. Certainly you must agree that folks in history who've met such challenges and discovered marvelous things have been persecuted for disrupting the status quo of what was accepted knowledge. This is evidence of the risk some are not willing to take wrt that level of mystery, and of the virtue involved in facing such challenges. " Nonsense, really. Virtue is FAR MORE than hoping for the best in an unpredictable outcome. I agree. I was thinking of 'accepting challenges' to engage in solving a mystery as a category of virtue, and a subcategory of Honor at that, not the whole sheebang.