10-16-2025, 11:28 AM
(10-16-2025, 11:19 AM)UltraBudgie Wrote: I'm not convinced. I see many instances where I think folks use "reasoned philosophical understanding" to be all sneaky-like and twist things and sometimes justify doing the most horrible things imaginable.
I suppose philosophy can be twisted to fit almost any agenda if someone's determined enough.
After all, people are great at building elegant arguments to defend what they already want to believe, or do.
If in doubt, see the greater part of recorded history.
"Yet so it is, we see the illiterate bulk of mankind that walk the high-road of plain common sense, and are governed by the dictates of nature, for the most part easy and undisturbed. To them nothing that is familiar appears unaccountable or difficult to comprehend."
