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Re: Libertarian debate in danger of pollution (was Re: Will Libertopia cause the needy to get less?
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Fri, 1 Dec 2000 15:09:48 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Tim Courtney writes:
> I undersand the circular reasoning of a lot of Biblical theology. Even
> though its not empirical, its circular-ness is in some ways part of its
> beauty from this perspective.
??
In the way the LUGNet trademark device has beauty? That is, it's logically
inconsistent, but pretty, in a decorative way?
This and something David Low said got me thinking.
Is it possible that all or part of the intellectual attractiveness of a good
religion is not that it explains things, or even that it is consistent? Is
it rather that it's aesthetically pleasing, somehow? This of course is not
what attracts the indoctrinated, uneducated masses, but what attracts the
intellectuals of a society, who presumably have education and who can think
critically.
If that were the case, then it actually would not matter whether it were
true or not, merely that it was elegant... in the same way that quantum
bogodynamics is not a true explanation for computer faults, but it is,
nevertheless, an elegant one, and one that makes a certain kind of sense on
first examination. (after all, the idea that suits cause demos to fail is an
attractive one to anyone who has ever had to give a technical presentation)
It is only when you examine it more deeply that it turns out to not be
consistent.
Urp.
Does that mean that property rights analysis is attractive because it's
elegant (this was a libertarian debate before it was hijacked, after all
(this is a song about Alice's Restaurant, remember Alice?)) rather than with
regard to whether it's correct, or a consistent system?
Urp again, this may apply to a lot of things, some of which are correct and
some of which are not. (Socialism, general relativity, lamarckian evolution,
etc...)
Thoughts?
++Lar
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