I am going to repost the OP in an attempt to get this thread back on topic.
In the much heated thread
Is morality decreasing with Time, Anglagard partially sums up his position on the issues with the following statement and message: http://
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EvC Forum: Morality Decreasing With Time?
He says:
I believe this exercise shows the tremendous lengths a few here will go to force history to conform to their belief system regardless of any semblance to reality. IMO, such behavior may resemble a form of mental disorder.
I will show that his is a logically incoherent statement. I do not want to impune Anglagard. We all make unthoughtful comments from time to time. It's more than forgivable, but the implications are invaluable.
Anglagards comment, when taken into context with all of his comments in the thread, reveal that he is invoking '
reality' (which is
absolute by definition) to give
solid ground to the accusation that some of us are '
mad' in relation
to that ground. But he does so all the while in defense of the position that '
reality' is not absolute, but relative.
I believe that is the equivalent of him saying:
'We cannot know reality, and if you were not so out of touch, with what none of us in touch with, you would know that! You are a nut job!'
It's also like the Agnostic professor who told a Christian professor,
'You are an anachronism. You believe in the concept of truth. You cannot arrive at the truth!' To which the Christian professor said,
'Then how did you arrive at that?'
All of this finds it's context in the 'moral realm' (an integral part of reality whatever may be), wherein we find the only legitimate inference to confirming the existence of a
transcendant reality within a philosophical dialog. So it is not just a blind appeal to conscious I offer you in my defense, but also one measured carefully by intellectual objectivity and consistency.
I am also closing this puppy for a bit so everyone can regroup and reread.