Reductionism eliminates some information because it cannot be verified and reproduced. The attribution of emotional motivation appears to the process looks like an effort to inflate your own ego by demeaning everyone else, because you imagine yourself posessed of superior spiritual qualities that make you able to see what no one else can.
tacticalogic: Reductionism eliminates some information because it cannot be verified and reproduced. The attribution of emotional motivation appears to the process looks like an effort to inflate your own ego by demeaning everyone else, because you imagine yourself posessed of superior spiritual qualities that make you able to see what no one else can.
Spirited: Your reasoning is exactly backwards.
Sanity is the ability to recognize right from wrong independently of personal feelings (i.e., pride, covetousness, jealousy), fears, impulses, desires, and compulsions. Rational thinking then, is reasoning disciplined to resist the corrupting influence of personal feelings, etc. thus allowing for the acceptance of Higher Truths and Moral constraints that contradict selfish feelings, desires, and fancies. In short, rational thinking is morally-informed reasoning. It is dispassionate, rightly-ordered, clear thinking and logical and is the fruit of impulse-control and unswerving commitment to enduring Higher Truths, Transcendent Moral Law, virtue and principle.
As reductionism eliminates Higher Truths, Moral Law, virtue and “self” it reduces man to an out-of-control psychochemical machine or ape helpless to resist selfish feelings, impulses, etc. hence it promotes and empowers selfishness, self-gratification, self-importance, self-pity, scapegoating, vengeance seeking, and a legion of other social evils and their corollary, rebelliousness, at the expense of society, other people, their children, their income and property, and general well-being.
Irrationality is the inability to recognize right from wrong independent of personal feelings, cravings, impulses, and compulsions. By the degree to which the moral sense (conscience)is corrupt, so too is reason. The greater the degree of corruption, the more depraved and downright evil is reason.
America is imploding under the destructive effects of depraved reasoning or sophistry. It has reached epidemic levels within the White House, Dem Party, GOP ‘elite,’ academia, Hollywood and a particular segment of the science community.
Wesley J. Smith reports a frightening ‘new’ low:
“The first case of a child being trafficked to Britain in order to have their organs harvested has been uncovered. The unnamed girl was brought to the UK from Somalia with the intention of removing her organs and selling them on to those desperate for a transplant.”
“Child protection charities warned that the case was unlikely to be an isolated incident as traffickers were likely to have smuggled a group of children into the country.”
“The buyers should be asked: Is your own death really worse than having a child killed or maimed that you might live?”
“Some would clearly say yes. If that isn’t evil, what is?”
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