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

[Lorentzen / Nicklaus]

Doug "discourse police chief" Millison wrote:

> Peter Petto objected (rightly, in my personal opinion), to  Lorentzen /
> Nicklaus' post about "pedophilia with consenting children."
 
  Ach Doug ... Regarding the issue see my answer to Peter Petto. Here's   
  something else for you to chew on while waiting for y2k:

  "Against a moral, that propagates fear-related distinctions, theoretical 
  analysis can hardly make any score. Fear is, because it transforms the   
  uncertainty of things themselves into the certainty of fear, a self-conscious 
  principle, that needs no theoretical fundament. It can, and not without   
  reason, count theories to the functional system of science and differentiate  
  them according to whether they sympathize with the fear or not. The observing 
  position of a rhetoric and a moral, that are grounded on fear, has - following 
  the old apriori of reason - an unchallengeable self-consciousness".

  (m.o.p.a.t. from Niklas Luhmann: Ökologische Kommunikation, page 246) - KFL