Was tempted to like it, but I felt like I would have just fallen for some bullshit. :)
Mind you: what Scott discusses is kinda echoing the old school postmodernist vs. moral objectivist war.
So let me give my dumbified response:
Sometimes a thing can be a complicated issue, thus all sides could be correct altogether....or wrong altogether.
But sometimes with enough fact-checking... there is a clear "cause" of events, and only one truth exists.
I could show you a criminal case, where Americans (I am from Europe) applied their 87 dimensional philosophy on self-defense... But I simply looked at some odd facts the prosecutor established... then decided to further research the case. Then I found a moral complexity... BUT at the time of the crime... all things considered, like the complexity around the perpetrator... he was the sole cause of the tragedy. He took certain steps, he took certain bad faith actions (quite a lot actually, one of them very unlawful), and it hurt people acting in good faith.
Another piercing essay from Scott Samuelson. His words below sum it up. Read it, and say a prayer for our country and its return to principle and common decency not brutality in the service of power:
“If I could have a few wishes for our country, one of them would certainly be that terms like murder and justice were used properly.”
"It requires us to hear, through all the noise, the fundamental tones given off by the heart."
There is so much care in this brilliant piece, a true valentine to this dangerous present and uncertain future. Much needed this morning and always and thank you Scott.
Was tempted to like it, but I felt like I would have just fallen for some bullshit. :)
Mind you: what Scott discusses is kinda echoing the old school postmodernist vs. moral objectivist war.
So let me give my dumbified response:
Sometimes a thing can be a complicated issue, thus all sides could be correct altogether....or wrong altogether.
But sometimes with enough fact-checking... there is a clear "cause" of events, and only one truth exists.
I could show you a criminal case, where Americans (I am from Europe) applied their 87 dimensional philosophy on self-defense... But I simply looked at some odd facts the prosecutor established... then decided to further research the case. Then I found a moral complexity... BUT at the time of the crime... all things considered, like the complexity around the perpetrator... he was the sole cause of the tragedy. He took certain steps, he took certain bad faith actions (quite a lot actually, one of them very unlawful), and it hurt people acting in good faith.
Another piercing essay from Scott Samuelson. His words below sum it up. Read it, and say a prayer for our country and its return to principle and common decency not brutality in the service of power:
“If I could have a few wishes for our country, one of them would certainly be that terms like murder and justice were used properly.”
Kendra Auxier ; Scott's essay is a warm salve in a badly scraped knee
another ERA Steve Miller would be Grand Wizard
"It requires us to hear, through all the noise, the fundamental tones given off by the heart."
There is so much care in this brilliant piece, a true valentine to this dangerous present and uncertain future. Much needed this morning and always and thank you Scott.