Quote from: John Keats on March 07, 2012, 01:43 amThere's comes a point in an educated mans life where you realize that there is no RIGHT answer, no PERFECT philosophy or viewpoint. It I thought that after a while. And then I realized that it's fundamentally a contradiction. i.e. Your position is itself a circular argument. It is in of itself a philosophy/perspective/POV etc. It is exactly like saying:The statement below is right.The statement above is wrong.That is the futility of relativism. It gets you absolutely fucking nowhere. Neither does absolutism as it has been empirically shown to be inevitably misguided again and again. In fact relativism is just absolutism in disguise. Not only is it a spectrum, but the spectrum is a circular band.So where does that leave you? You might say it is unknown what is right or wrong, but once again, you have fallen prey to the exact same fallacy. So, not only is it unknown what is right or wrong and whether right or wrong exist, but it is also unknown whether it is unknown. Some famous neo-cons eventually came to the same conclusion during the Iraq War.Then I start really thinking, and realize that whether it matters or not, is irrelevant since we can only realistically work on a best effort strategy of sometimes thinking in relative terms and other times in absolute terms, and hope we use the right tools at the right times.An uncomfortable conclusion, or perhaps a liberating one. And if there is a God, then the one thing I'm fucking sure about is that he's bipolar.