wheatpenny opened this issue on Mar 21, 2005 ยท 425 posts
XENOPHONZ posted Mon, 21 March 2005 at 10:39 PM
Xeno: If you want to attack the point, you're going to have to rise above inciteful street banter and give me some counter philosophers or experts on criminal justice. Take it to a reasoned intellectual level, an emotional gut response from either the left or right is meaningless for finding the truth.
My personal philosophy is an internal one. I don't require a laundry list of external authorities to back me up -- or to attempt to overawe my opponents by impressing them with my great intellectualism.
If you are talking hard statistics....that we can do. And can quantify.
If you are talking about the realm of abstract ideas....that's anyone's game.
As for being "meaningless for finding the truth" -- I don't need some heavy-lidded "philosophy" to supply me with the thought that concrete facts -- hard facts such as the existence of real-life monsters like the one in Florida -- don't require much reflection.
Or provide any mitigation of the bloody thing that he did.
We didn't make him. And our ideas didn't make him.
He made himself.
Yeah, I know. The simple, bald truth often comes out as "inciteful street banter".
Clear water is easy to see through.
Stirring the intellectual mud up in an attempt to make matters less clear ------ goes to odd places. And odd conclusions.
I prefer the clarity of my "street banter".