FROM AN MLPF EMAIL EXCHANGE

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>What I thought was right yesterday might be wrong today. What I
>thought is wrong today would be right tomorrow. There is no
>(constant) right or wrong answer. It is all about feeling.

When I was in school, too long ago, the good sisters and brothers, beat into me, literally, that emotions, feelings, and opinions just get one into trouble. There are facts, which are usually rarely in dispute (i.e., that bomb killed those people). There are principles, which also are rarely in dispute (i.e., thou shalt not kill). And there are conclusions (i.e., that bombing was immoral).

I would gently disagree that what was “right” yesterday would be “wrong” today. We may find that our facts were in error. And, we should correct the results as best we can the results of our error ensuring that we don’t make that mistake again.

Unfortunately, like with the death penalty, it’s hard to “fix” that genre of deadly mistake.

As an injineer, I would NEVER tell a Philosopher they were “wrong”. Or, yell “barbara streisand”! I would say that we had differences in the input data, principles used, and results computed.

:-)
fjohn
the big fat old turkey hisself

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Unless one is mentally ill, one doesn’t deliberately make “mistakes”. Maybe it is my Catholic School upbringing, but I, like Plato, think there are absolutes. The most telling argument, I ever heard about, was from some writer, who described, a session, where he asked adversaries, to sit quietly with their eyes closed and “listen to their soul” tell them what is right and wrong.

Anyone remember that book?

So, “be still” and know.

There are absolutes.

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