Saintman2884
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I was taking a class tonight and the professor said to me that to him a human being cannot totally objective. that to him we lie, have biases, prejudices, or even irrational hatreds that can make us do things that really dont make sense at all or they are contradictory or seem hypocritical. It seems so in the politcal equation of it too. You would think that most liberals would be open-minded, open to change, freedom in essence to think the way like they want too. Conservatives are the same way to a certain extent on the other aisle of the spectrum. But that's labeling and you cannot do that and I am not going to do thst here.
No, no my question to you is: are human beings really objective in the strictest sense, believing in reason, logic, and rational philosophy? Are we really just bound by sitautional ethics and thats it.
I make a case by saying that despite me being somewhat cynical on human nature a bit, I think we can be reasonable, ethical, moral , all the rational things we would want to be.
but its only so much we only go so far, we all have biases,God forbid maybe even prejudices as harsh as that meaning sounds, we only go so far and then well we dont do better.
after all we are not perfect and we make mistakes, we are bound by that truism, no human being is always 100% tolerant of everything and everybody, their are no absolutes truths either if you want to go on that arena of thought.
No, no my question to you is: are human beings really objective in the strictest sense, believing in reason, logic, and rational philosophy? Are we really just bound by sitautional ethics and thats it.
I make a case by saying that despite me being somewhat cynical on human nature a bit, I think we can be reasonable, ethical, moral , all the rational things we would want to be.
but its only so much we only go so far, we all have biases,God forbid maybe even prejudices as harsh as that meaning sounds, we only go so far and then well we dont do better.
after all we are not perfect and we make mistakes, we are bound by that truism, no human being is always 100% tolerant of everything and everybody, their are no absolutes truths either if you want to go on that arena of thought.
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