Thats very catholic of you.moral universality
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Thats very catholic of you.moral universality
MisterVeritis (09-30-2019),stjames1_53 (09-15-2019)
In quoting my post, you affirm and agree that you have not been goaded, provoked, emotionally manipulated or otherwise coerced into responding.
"The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.”
Mahatma Gandhi
Last edited by Chris; 09-15-2019 at 10:12 AM.
Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire. ― Gustav Mahler
Rationalist (09-15-2019),stjames1_53 (09-15-2019)
Correct. I use this strictly as an example and not meant to drag off-topic.
Newton did not discover Gravity. It had always been around. He didn't even prove it was gravity, but figured out how to mathematically explain it. In his exuberance, he named it gravity.
This rule also applies to air, wind, and water. These things are universal.
How we use it is Moral.
For waltky: http://quakes.globalincidentmap.com/
"The Nation that makes a great distinction between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools."
- Thucydides
"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote" B. Franklin
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
Chris (09-15-2019),Rationalist (09-15-2019)
Agree, though I would say Newton discovered gravity but did not design it, in exactly the sense you explain. Somehow some people think man's nature is special in this sense in that they believe man can design his own nature, laws, rights, morals, truths.
And actually, Newton discovered as you say an explanation or theory of gravity, then along came Einstein who discovered a more refine explanation or theory, and physicists are refining that. Discovery is a gradual process. I think this is the way societies/cultures work, discovering and refining explanations of rights, laws, morals, and that accounts for the variation you see in practice.
Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire. ― Gustav Mahler
stjames1_53 (09-15-2019)
Whoever criticizes capitalism, while approving immigration, whose working class is its first victim, had better shut up. Whoever criticizes immigration, while remaining silent about capitalism, should do the same.
~Alain de Benoist
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