Theos-Talk Archives (November 1999 Message tl00094)

----- Original Message -----
> From: <kymsmith@micron.net>
> Date: Wednesday, November 10, 1999 9:01 AM
> Subject: Re: Dallas - theos-l digest: November 09, 1999

> I postulate that logic, objectivity, and reasoning can veer off
> into a tangent, causing harm, havoc, and pain.  Therefore, I still do
not
> see how reasoning is "superior" to emotions, including sentimentality.
>
Logic "objectivity" and reasoning all too often depend upon a given
premise.  In Hitler's National Socialist Philosophy, the "Aryan" white
race was superior.  IF that is accepted then everything that the NAZIs
did in WWII, including the mass extermination of Jews, Gypsies, and
Homosexuals, was logical and reasonable.

IF, for example, the Russians decide that Chechnya is "bad" for Russia,
then it is logical and reasonable to destroy it in order to protect
Russia.

IF, for example, the US administration decided that Lincoln was wrong,
and that slavery was fine, then it would be logical and reasonable to
re-introduce it.

Emotion, on the other hand, while it can easily over-react to events,
comes from depth of feeling, and, at its best, from the heart.  There
can be a Bill of Rights which, logically and reasonably states that we
are all born equal, but no legislation, however logical or reasonable,
can impose *Compassion* upon those for whom it legislates.

All "logic" and "reason" depend upon a starting "IF" - and as for
"objectivity," it lies in the eye of the beholder.

We don't know everything, cannot see everything, for the equipment we
walk around in does not have the capacity.  We do not have infra-red
sight or X-ray vision, nor perfect intuition, and have absolutely no
idea of what may go on outside our own Universe (and our personal little
"universes."

Humanity is an ignorant child, but alas, not an innocent one.

Let's try to get real.

Alan

http://www.soft.net.uk/ambain/