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<No Wade, that's not your universe, it's how you see "the other
one".
> In your's, science is good and non-science bad.
>
> In other words, still moralistic claptrap, but the other way up.>
>
But surely you have to occupy one position or the other?
That is if you want to remain a social being, engaging in activities with
other humans, you have to acknowledge the importance of value judgement and
develop some effective system of arbitration between competing viewpoints.
Otherwise you end up either in a fence-sitting position refusing to judge
anything, and thus unable to act, or you must end up with a cultural
relativism where anything goes, and everything is of equal merit- whether
that be meditation or mass human sacrifice.
I'm on the side of the fence with Wade, where the grass may not be as green,
but at least it's real.
Vincent
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