Friday, September 08, 2006
If we live in a real world, if there are cause and effect relationships which when working with known parameters render outcomes that are predictable; then why not stick with the pattern? Why try to force a relativitist view on a reality that won't accept it?
Process this through a preferential truth position. 3 men are sitting on a beach watching and commenting on the young ladies around them. In the distance they notice a girl approaching that appears to be the proverbial 10! They share comments about her that I will not attempt to share here, but as she draws closer one of the guys notes there is something familiar about the way she walks. He is looking at his daughter as his friends continue to make crude comments.
He no longer thinks this is fun. He is disgusted with himself and angry with his friends.
Why? What changed? This is relativism at its best. What is OK for his friends is not OK for him, one man's truth and all that. Only in this case it was OK for him until the reality changed.
But then, are not all of the ladies on the beach someone's daughter?
Process this through a preferential truth position. 3 men are sitting on a beach watching and commenting on the young ladies around them. In the distance they notice a girl approaching that appears to be the proverbial 10! They share comments about her that I will not attempt to share here, but as she draws closer one of the guys notes there is something familiar about the way she walks. He is looking at his daughter as his friends continue to make crude comments.
He no longer thinks this is fun. He is disgusted with himself and angry with his friends.
Why? What changed? This is relativism at its best. What is OK for his friends is not OK for him, one man's truth and all that. Only in this case it was OK for him until the reality changed.
But then, are not all of the ladies on the beach someone's daughter?
