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To: Louis Foxwell

There are no morals, only sides.

Depressing.


5 posted on 08/02/2015 5:11:00 PM PDT by Excellence (Marine mom since April 11, 2014)
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To: Excellence
That's subjectivism for you. Once upon a time it was the embrace of private interpretation (the method and circumstance) as a meta-principle governing the specific interpretations that one can articulate. It was the false elevation of a political concern to a theological "truth." Now it's become a general, unspoken belief that the Sovereign Self's arbitrary reservation of opinions and perspectives unto itself is supposedly sacred and unchangeable because I want it to be. Hence the experience that discussions seem never to resolve anything. (When all parties believe that subjectivism is sacred, there's not much that can be penetrated by means of discussion.)

In this situation people naturally develop the complementary belief that to accomplish anything in life, they must take action in ways that are invisible to others until their actions can be unveiled as faits accompli, because open methods are seen as hopeless.

12 posted on 08/03/2015 4:44:43 AM PDT by Mmmike
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