DJFC:
I think being controversial is sexy and it’s easy to be glib.
Part of what makes us human is precisely our ability to rise above our nature (or perhaps I should say rise to meet it?), primarily through rational thought; morality, ethics, law and social contract are examples of this. I find the defense of rape and slavery intellectually weak, despite how cute you may or may not be trying to be. Monarchism and the divine right of kings versus popular sovereignty are more interesting though still difficult to defend. You certainly seem to learn towards an aristocratic world view and I’d like to hear more about it.
Everyone:
More specifically, I’m interested in the reasons why people are taking the positions they are on the issues that have been brought up thus far – it’s not what your position is but why it is. Which brings me back to the question In my original post – with any position you take, is it absolute? Is there any objectivity when we talk about ideas of things, or is everything subjective, swimming in a sea of relativism? Where does our authority to claim something is right or something is wrong come from? From God? Evidence? Reason?
Explain yourselves.
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