??? Consider the bible. Consider news stories. Consider propaganda stories and inspirational narratives. If they make us feel good or seem to have a profound meaning but are not established to be true factual accounts, we must say this.
Yes, he has a better truth than well... truth. That's what is worrying. Objective truth is something worth aiming for.
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Well it goes to the argument of can you cross small lox and ebloa. That could be a truth claim to be understood, but not something we should aim for.
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But what tells us we don't want to breeding diseases? Isn't it an understanding of disease? It's not a mythic narrative.
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What in the scientific understand of disease would stop you from doing this? It seems the pragmatic wisdom would be setting the limit. Science would state there is truth to find.
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Pragmatic, no, because pragmatic goals depend on what your end is. Science tells us what would happen if we did that. The likely effect on human life. Pragmatic ethics are fine as long as they are rooted in protecting all human life. What would ISIS' pragmatic goal look like?
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Oooo that is a good distinction I need to make and didn't realize was specific to me. When I speak of pragmatic ideas it is pragmatic in the sense it moves towards human well being, and then you get into what we'll being is.
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Humanism, essentially. I share it.
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