(November 21, 2018 at 5:10 am)Belaqua Wrote:(November 21, 2018 at 4:06 am)ignoramus Wrote: Bel ...That's all very noble but still based on nothing solid.
Granted, the very short version I've typed out here seems arbitrary. People have been working on it for well over 2000 years, though, so we can be pretty confident that whatever objections occur to us have been addressed.
I really don't appreciate the appeal to tradition. It's a move to grant one's views an authority they don't possess and to shut down dialogue and dissent. This type of thinking simply leads into error.