RE: Being vs. Believing
May 21, 2015 at 2:45 pm
(This post was last modified: May 21, 2015 at 2:57 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Adjusting the standard could be a useful and diplomatic arrangement between two individuals or groups which had any need or desire to coexist. If we could go along to get along - in such a dramatic way....what would be impractical about that? What problem is that supposed to bring that does not already exist, and for which that very attribute, that talent, would be a solution in the first place?
What would be impractical about adjusting the standards higher and higher as we achieved? What would be impractical about adjusting the standards lower and lower to temper expectation with experience? At what point is virtue unattainable? Wouldn't virtue...if all of those conditions were true...be just about the easiest thing to attain in the whole wide world (and hey, I could be wrong, maybe some of us would set em high and some would set em low and it would all be a wash,. with precisely as many virtuous people and un-virtuous people regardless)? Couldn't it just as easily be unattainable, as we set the standard ever higher? I'm really not following, we have entirely left the real world...we are deep into hypotheticals, I'm granting you every ridiculous condition
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.....and I'm still not seeing the problem........now that, is what I'd call a problem.
(I think you have some undeclared assumptions about what people would -do- with this ability, if we had it...and that's causing the disconnect between us...my two cents)
What would be impractical about adjusting the standards higher and higher as we achieved? What would be impractical about adjusting the standards lower and lower to temper expectation with experience? At what point is virtue unattainable? Wouldn't virtue...if all of those conditions were true...be just about the easiest thing to attain in the whole wide world (and hey, I could be wrong, maybe some of us would set em high and some would set em low and it would all be a wash,. with precisely as many virtuous people and un-virtuous people regardless)? Couldn't it just as easily be unattainable, as we set the standard ever higher? I'm really not following, we have entirely left the real world...we are deep into hypotheticals, I'm granting you every ridiculous condition
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).....and I'm still not seeing the problem........now that, is what I'd call a problem.
(I think you have some undeclared assumptions about what people would -do- with this ability, if we had it...and that's causing the disconnect between us...my two cents)
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