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Posted by Mark Parnell on 11/25/44 11:49
Deciding to do something for the good of humanity, dorayme
<doraymeRidThis@optusnet.com.au> declared in alt.html:
> If a boxing judge marks down a contender because he does not look
> like Marilyn Monroe, we don't just say... "Oh well, each to their
> own standards... fair enough... tra la la la la... everything is
> relative you see... tra la la la lal ... everyone has their own
> ideals and standards and points of comparison... "
Exactly - which is why relativism is such a ridiculous idea. That's why
I said that ultimately there must be a perfect ideal.
Another way of looking at it is that there must be absolute truth, since
the existence (or not) of absolute truth is itself an absolute.
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Mark Parnell
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