Imagine...

[poliphilo]

Imagine a world in which intellectual honesty was the most prized virtue and people felt bound to qualify even their most confident assertions.

For example...

"Allahu Akhbar- or so we've been told."

"God, supposing he exists, is with us."

"There is no alternative- except, of course, for the one being put forward by my opponents."

There'd be a lot less killing, I think.

Comments

[michaleen.livejournal.com]

I'd settle for a world in which intellectual honesty was the norm and not the exception. Or is that too cynical?

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Not cynical, simply realistic.

[ingenious76.livejournal.com]

I wish you'd actually run for PM.

The world would be a nicer place.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Ha!

But I'd be such a pushover.

[artkouros.livejournal.com]

I think I'd prefer tolerance of other opinions over diffidence.

[howlin-wolf-66.livejournal.com]

That would be marvellous!

[w. lotus (from livejournal.com)]

I would like this kind of world I think.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

No, I'm sticking to my guns. Opinions are the devil.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I think we could get there, eventually- but we have a lot of evolving to do first.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

It'd be good.

[amritarosa.livejournal.com]

Yes, please :)