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02-18-2022, 08:20 AM
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Originally Posted by donquixote99
Depending on how strict you want to be about it, I can't even define good. But I'm willing to push on regardless.
If I'd been right about everything, as a good machiavellian you'd never admit it.
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Having read The Prince, I'm pretty sure your PC's Machiavelli. The Art of War is where it's at.
So, you don't even have a clue as to what the common good is. Where are you pushing on to if you don't even know where your going? Sounds like your wandering aimlessly.
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02-18-2022, 08:35 AM
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Having read The Prince, I'm pretty sure your PC's Machiavelli. The Art of War is where it's at.
So, you don't even have a clue as to what the common good is. Where are you pushing on to if you don't even know where your going? Sounds like your wandering aimlessly.
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As you recently told me, you are totally wrong about everything.
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02-18-2022, 08:40 AM
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Your right.
Which means your wrong.
Right or wrong?
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02-18-2022, 09:02 AM
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You sound like a member of the Texas State Board of Education.
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That astute observation on history was made by the protagonist in The Engines of God, a SF novel by Jack McDevitt. Pretty sure it's not your type of read though.
I was indeed a member of said board for one meeting. Pointing out that teaching Creationism acknowledged God's imperfection got me unceremoniously booted out the back door.
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02-18-2022, 09:15 AM
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Your right.
Which means your wrong.
Right or wrong?
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Why?
But right vs, wrong, good vs. bad, are fundamental, the basis and result of all decision-making. Without them the wheels would spin endlessly. And they are subjective and not definable in physical or logical terms. They are as necessary as our ability to locate ourselves in space and time, two more concepts that we cannot fully define or grasp.
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02-18-2022, 09:23 AM
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Why?
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Post 23.
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02-18-2022, 10:51 AM
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But right vs, wrong, good vs. bad, are fundamental, the basis and result of all decision-making. Without them the wheels would spin endlessly. And they are subjective and not definable in physical or logical terms. They are as necessary as our ability to locate ourselves in space and time, two more concepts that we cannot fully define or grasp.
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An excellent example of aimless intellectual wandering.
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02-18-2022, 11:35 AM
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An excellent example of aimless intellectual wandering.
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Unless you're completely missing the point. Is that conceivably possible, either by happenstance, or on purpose?
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02-18-2022, 12:45 PM
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Libertarians give me hives.
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Yes. It's SO easy to understand why Rand Paul's neighbor kicked his ass.
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02-18-2022, 01:27 PM
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Yes. It's SO easy to understand why Rand Paul's neighbor kicked his ass.
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I'd like to buy that guy a beer.
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