GRGR (15): Good & Evil (was Enzian...)

[Paul Mackin]

On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, David Morris wrote:

> > > Paul Mackin wrote:

> >We all must have some kind of "moral compass" we can call our own.
> >Something incorporating our notion of the bad. It's a basic human need.
> 
> No question, but how singular must it be?  The older/wiser one gets (if 
> one's compass isn't rusty) fields other than polar might start to direct.

Yes, the twirling needle. Also moral compasses are nonsingular in the
sense that others will have similar ones. We tend to join groups.
Countercultures. 

Somewhere else today someone mentioned something about the utility of
theories in reading p-text but I can't locate it. It has of course
been said innummerable times that everyone has a theory--deny it though
they might. It is another one of those basic needs I would think. We can't
very well act without assumptions. Or think, or write stories either. Of
course there's the problem of the unacknowledged assumption. Is there a
Goedel theory of unacknowledged assumptions? There's always one last
assumption we have forgotten to acknowledge.

			P.