Alexander:

Think of it: Billions and billions of humans running around, each under the hypnotic spell of a single truth, all these truths identical, and all logically incompatible with one another: "Mine is the correct view of how things really are." And you are one of these humans, living your life in the thrall of a logical absurdity.

Unfortunately, however, self-righteousness seldom presents itself to us in such naked form. Belonging as we do to a species whose members justify their actions morally, we are designed to think of ourselves as right, our behavior as defensible and our beliefs as true, even when these propositions are objectively dubious.

B. L. Nelson

• Laws of Nature are Objectively Dubious for some? - alexander - February 9, 2001 - 21:39 UTC
  • Re: Laws of Nature are Objectively Dubious for some? - blnelsonusa - February 9, 2001 - 23:10 UTC
    • Re: Re: Laws of Nature are Objectively Dubious for some? - alexander - February 10, 2001 - 01:06 UTC
      • Re: Re: Re: Laws of Nature are Objectively Dubious for some? - yanniru - February 17, 2001 - 21:14 UTC
  • why not tell HIM that? - gwynj - February 10, 2001 - 19:04 UTC
    • When I get more stupid with age, I will. But it takes time. - alexander - February 10, 2001 - 23:06 UTC
      • there you go, showing faith again - gwynj - February 11, 2001 - 20:34 UTC
        • Yeah, but that's making a mountain out of a molehill - stormcrow - February 12, 2001 - 15:23 UTC
          • i don't know - gwynj - February 12, 2001 - 15:35 UTC