But the difference of quality is obvious in extremis, so we know that Shakespeare is better literature than Mills and Boon, and we know that Bach created greater musical works than probably anyone today, and that Da Vinci is a greater artist than the middle class hobby painter. We know that acts of love are morally better than acts of hate, and so on. — Janus
None of those "in extremis" examples are factual, true, correct. They're simply opinions that one can have. — Terrapin Station
I think that's just bullshit; — Janus
"That's sophistry" isn't an adequate response to the objection. — Terrapin Station
You make the usual mistake of thinking it is all a matter of opinion, and this is shallow thinking, as well as being the definition of sophistry. Winning or losing is all about opinion, but that is not philosophy; see the difference? You should loosen your grip on the need to think in terms of winning, that is in terms of black and white, if you aspire to one day actually be wise. — Janus
“Men of Athens, I honor and love you; but I shall obey God rather than you, and while I have life and strength I shall never cease from the practice and teaching of philosophy... Understand that I shall never alter my ways, not even if I have to die many times.”
"The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people," former Nixon domestic policy chief John Ehrlichman told Harper's writer Dan Baum for the April cover story published Tuesday.
"You understand what I'm saying? We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin. And then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities," Ehrlichman said. "We could arrest their leaders. raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did."
Drugs are harmful to oneself and its effects spread out from there like a wave into everything else. — TheMadFool
I have seen what addiction or habitual use of pot does to families and children and it is not a pleasant reality. [...] The moral is addictive substances can lead to a lot of avoidable human pain and suffering for generations and we need to stop denying that. — Athena
However, pot is likely one of the best medicines nature has given us and hemp has many good purposes. We need to be more rational about growing and using marijuana. — Athena
Perhaps it is immoral not to do illegal drugs. — Merkwurdichliebe
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