RE: Devil's advocate..
September 27, 2014 at 8:22 pm
(This post was last modified: September 27, 2014 at 8:31 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(September 27, 2014 at 7:37 pm)rasetsu Wrote: Genkaus introduced that third criteria as something he thought I was implying, from which he tried to argue that it could serve as a wedge to differentiate between better and worse political systems. I don't accept that as a necessary metric.I read the same thing. I didn't see him call it a necessary metric, just one that your comments would imply - one that would appear to be amenable to you. Try the inversion (of multiple parts), would a government that acted in the absence of any clear method of determining something be better, to you? A government that did not act in the presence of a method of making clear determinations?
The opinion you expressed seemed to be important to you when considering the matter at hand, would it not also be important to any government amenable to you considering the same subject? It hardly seems arbitrary...it seems like it's based on your well reasoned opinions on the matter.
(I would have made a challenge on different grounds - the difference between right and wrong as originally expressed in the question, and right and wrong as it pertains to how something "fits" a persons opinions or stated views, or the implications of the same)
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