In Reply to: respect and chuckles posted by jake on September 21, 1996 at 01:51:10:
> Keep it up, and I mean that with respect and chuckles.*blush*, well thanks, that's my ego bolstered for the rest
of the day.> By the way, why aren't you a radical?
> The problem with liberalism is that it seems to have given
> up on the search for truth, and all moralities become equally valid.True. The major problem with radicalism is that it is not
selective about destruction. Too often, the approach is
"tear it all down and we'll sort the sheep from the goats
afterwards". It is all too easy to harm your cause by
taking a confrontational stance and alienating an otherwise
neutral audience. And "classical" liberalism does fall into
the plural-morality hole. My own personal moral philosophy
is liberalism with a proviso: No system can be tolerated that
harms the liberties or environment of another system. Since
the Earth's system is a single thing, ANY system that abuses
the environment is intolerable.> Dave Morris and Helen Steele are taking on, at considerable
> personal cost and I don't mean financial, one of the most
> powerful corps in the world - for the sake of _a_ truth.Yes. It is however (as far as we know) an _objective_ truth.
Which means that, to the limits of human knowledge, it is
incontravertible. It is _true_ that rainforest destruction
is bad for the planet's life (I speak with a degree from the
Dept. of Space and Climate Physics at University College London).> Oh and pardon my newbie ignorance, but what the heck is a troller?
A "troll" is an insulting/inflammatory remark posted solely to
elicit angry responses, known as "flames". Such a person, if
read without irony, would appear impossibly naive and/or
stupid. Read with irony, they merely seem childish. These people
are known as "trollers" or "flamebait". Hope that helps!Gideon.
None.