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mrnoodle · 05-17-2005, 02:59 PM

Happy isn't the word. Relieved that someone actually said it out loud with a (relative) minimum of riders, yes.

So what's the next question? Your opinion and mine are poles away from each other; if everything is relative, then we each have to agree that the other's viewpoint is equally valid. Because of the nature of our debate, that's impossible. It would make a wormhole or something. So relativism has just died from acute cognitive dissonance, and that puts into question your assertion that there can be no absolute right or wrong.

aspirin. need aspirin

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ooops HM beat me again. so i gotta add some. You're saying that there could be an absolute right and wrong, but we're incapable of discerning it. That's even worse. What would be the point of anything? Not wanting someone else to exert their will on me is one thing. Denying that any standard exists except that which I accept for myself is another. If there *is* an absolute "right" then we are bound by it whether we accept it or not.

05-17-2005, 02:59 PM	#34
mrnoodle bent Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: under the weather Posts: 2,656	Happy isn't the word. Relieved that someone actually said it out loud with a (relative) minimum of riders, yes. So what's the next question? Your opinion and mine are poles away from each other; if everything is relative, then we each have to agree that the other's viewpoint is equally valid. Because of the nature of our debate, that's impossible. It would make a wormhole or something. So relativism has just died from acute cognitive dissonance, and that puts into question your assertion that there can be no absolute right or wrong. aspirin. need aspirin edit: ooops HM beat me again. so i gotta add some. You're saying that there could be an absolute right and wrong, but we're incapable of discerning it. That's even worse. What would be the point of anything? Not wanting someone else to exert their will on me is one thing. Denying that any standard exists except that which I accept for myself is another. If there is an absolute "right" then we are bound by it whether we accept it or not. __________________ Sìn a nall na cuaranan sin. -- Cha mhór is fheairrde thu iad, tha iad coltach ri cat air a dhathadh Last edited by mrnoodle; 05-17-2005 at 03:02 PM.