Moral Truth
Ahnimus
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Watch and Discuss
http://ted.com/tedtalks/tedtalksplayer.cfm?key=r_wright
It's not very long. I don't want your opinion unless you've seen it.
So I'm guessing this thread will be dead pretty quickly.
http://ted.com/tedtalks/tedtalksplayer.cfm?key=r_wright
It's not very long. I don't want your opinion unless you've seen it.
So I'm guessing this thread will be dead pretty quickly.
I necessarily have the passion for writing this, and you have the passion for condemning me; both of us are equally fools, equally the toys of destiny. Your nature is to do harm, mine is to love truth, and to make it public in spite of you. - Voltaire
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But you insist that you are learned.
So what exactly is it you want to discuss? He says a lot of things in those 20 minutes (which is not a short video btw). Some of them notions I can relate to, other parts he go very lightly over for my tastes. But a witty fellow.
And again, dont count on people wanting to watch long videos when checking in on a message board. They aren't unlearned or stupid for not investing time in watching random videos. I really would wish you'd start using written sources soon, as they can be read faster and skimmed over to a larger degree. It also takes a lot less time to read the lines, than actually listening to someone say them. There are limits to how much of people's time you can claim for having them hear your view. You often do the equivalent of setting up on the street corner and start reading a 4-hour speech. Noone will listen through that, not because they are stupid, but they have other things to do than just stand around. So you better make your case in an economic fashion.
Peace
Dan
"Every judgment teeters on the brink of error. To claim absolute knowledge is to become monstrous. Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty." - Frank Herbert, Dune, 1965
Think about it man. See the way you are interacting with me, is going to elicit the same kind of response. What does that accomplish? There is nothing for either of us to gain except a headache. He's talking about how behavior is contagious. His example is muslims vs. the us. But it can be applied to this forum. People get excited it escalates, someone gets banned, mods lock the forum. It's one thing leading to another and in the end, it's just childish bantering. If you want people to understand you, gotta take the time to understand them. That is the moral code that all religions have touched on, observation proves that. It's such an important fundamental that gets ignored too often. Here and everywhere.
Wright proposes that this is causing some kind of social armageddon and explains the flaws in the system that could lead to it's crash. I think it's an important topic.
Exactly. Have an open mind. Be tolerant of other views. Good stuff.
Peace
Dan
"Every judgment teeters on the brink of error. To claim absolute knowledge is to become monstrous. Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty." - Frank Herbert, Dune, 1965
Now, do we start a topic, "Why Do They Hate Us?" without it going into the Death Spiral of Negativity?
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He is right.. amazing how difficult it is to bring the fundamental understanding that hate is bad.
How surprising.