The Real Life Important Point about Being Moral or Ethical.

[spaminator101]

who cares how he spelt falooten and second falooten isn't in my dictionary

[siegfriedandroy]

clearly, i care.

one of my profs always use to advise us not to use this type of language on exams.

[Piers]

I suspect a Sklanskian derrivertive of highfalutin.

[PLOlover]

I think chess is a better metaphor.

Sometimes the best move or plan is obvious or explainably superior to others,

while other times it's more a matter of taste. Do you want to play for a static strength like pawn structure, or go for a dynamic strength such as piece dynamism? Both plans may be valid, and not demonstrably unequal.

[malorum]

Post from the heart? very nice.

Worth noting however that accepted Deductive methods vary:
(In particular note point 4 and respond if possible)

1.
Certainly within the liberal arts or within politics, rationalisations, and arguments from authority are commonplace if not the norm.
In mathematics reference to a respected yet senile author who claims that 2+2=1 (in anything other than modulo 3) does not necessarily carry the same weight, as a historians reference to historical 'fact'.

2. In the Lutheran dogmatic tradition Logic is used ministerialy. There is formal acknowledgment that the lines of reasoning my include 'apparent' contradictions. (Logic is used ministerially rather than magisterially.)

3. Ethics is one of those fuzzy areas generally treated with rationalizations, evidentially unsupported axioms, and ill defined terms. (eg. "Everyone agrees murder is wrong" - "What do you mean by murder?" "You sure about that?")

4. At a fundamental level in rational terms ethics depend on your understanding of free will. To suggest that ideas of Good and Evil and crime and punishment are meaningful at more than an experiential level, requires and acceptance of a non-deterministic world-model that is not well supported by current scientific consensus.

[andyfox]

Falootin unbelievable.

[spaminator101]

yeh but only 21 replies

[John Cole]

One time, a post of mine was dated sometime in December of 1969. Strange things afoot, Watson.

[andyfox]

True story: I once asked my son if he knew who had said, "Elementary, my dear Watson."

He guessed Jack Nicklaus.

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True story: I once asked my son if he knew who had said, "Elementary, my dear Watson."

He guessed Jack Nicklaus.

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Does he know anything about golf? Seems like a bright kid, prety reasonable to guess that Jack Nicklaus might say something like that to Tom Watson.