Sustained by the composition and the open nature of my challenge to consider its parts. Or, reason itself will tell you that the argument is from it. Whether it is sufficient or flawed is another matter and the nature of the challenge you have before you to meet or fail.What is absolutist is your conviction that your opinion is an "argument from reason"
If so it must be illustrated. Else, that's a declaration from arrogance.when in fact it is an argument from ignorance
Then it should be an easy thing to meet.I'm saying that the reasoning is flawed
Rather, it is your inability to address the particulars of the argument and find either flaw among the particulars or reason that overcomes them that remains your problem. As someone who once inclined to the right of Roe before considering it fully, I'm always open to merit. My personal objection to Roe isn't found in the argument to begin with, given the change in my personal context, so its failure would simply mean a different route and harder course. I prefer advancing the argument because it speaks a language that doesn't require faith, only an understanding of the law's context and the implications reason, I believe, insists upon.It is your inability/refusal to acknowledge this that is 'absolutist'.
I think that's a silly thing for you to say. But you do that when your dander is up and it's almost always up when you speak to a Christian about a thing touching upon a moral certainty. It's the relativist in you, I suppose. :idunno:I find it both interesting and telling that the only ideal greater than the right to life is the right to ignore that ideal whenever it's deemed appropriate, by you.
Because reason doesn't belong to a person. Ideas may be voiced by one and good on them if the idea is well founded, but the idea and the reasoning of it remain the thing. Pull a name off a quote that is true or add it and the truth remains.Why do you assume that it's you and your reasoning that should be determining
If their reasoning contravenes my argument they should present it and decrease the surplus population, to borrow a bit.when and how this "abrogation of the right to life" occurs? And no one else? Because there are other people, and they have their own reasoning. And their reasoning is no more or less logical than yours.
Given I constructed the argument as an atheist rationalist, that's a read-in of your own bias. Righteousness had and has nothing to do with the argument, except that from my current perspective it serves the good and the Holy. It wasn't meant to, but many a sound argument will have that impact where the matter itself is essentially entwined with moral gravitas.The absolutism I was referring to is the absoluteness of your own presumed righteousness.
Not at all. Rather, I present the contextual framework for how right is viewed in the law and address what is known and our obligation within both in how we address what either isn't known or may not be knowable, objectively. If it isn't certain the reasoning will out it.You presume that what you see to be certain IS CERTAIN
Well, I'm none of those things but you'll have to out argue the proposition to move me, not attempt to move me out of some fear of being associated with the unreasoned. Declarations of how you choose to see me to suit your bias are of no particular concern to me. They should, instead, concern you. I mean if you're dead set in them and consider your own premise. lain:simply because you see it that way. That is the absolutist's mind-set. Certainty and righteousness become one and the same phenomena, for the absolutist. And it makes them impervious to error or correction regarding most things, most of the time.
That's really not true, which is why you'll say it, maybe on some level really believe it, but never illustrate me doing it with, you know, my actually doing it.Everything about your posts indicate otherwise. You stoop to surprisingly low means to dismiss any and every objection that confronts you
That mindset is found in the invitation to examination, which presupposes response where warranted, rebuttal where reasoned and capitulation only when and if a deficiency on the point is framed. So far, over many a year and person, that hasn't happened.That is not the mind-set of someone seeking discourse and objection.
It may yet, though I'm at a loss for how, given the requirement would be a standard that is self-authenticating, self-evident. Again, I think I've addressed the problem in that in various threads on the topic and possibly in this one.
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