tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4868637208708070057.post5259836789593356598..comments2023-10-26T08:39:39.501-04:00Comments on The Global Observer: Deductive Reasoning...a dying artThe Global Observerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13799206875756322855noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4868637208708070057.post-73325107762454429912014-07-03T03:00:12.455-04:002014-07-03T03:00:12.455-04:00I completely understand what you are saying, the f...I completely understand what you are saying, the frustration of looking around, and making conjectures and coming upon logical conclusions based on those conjectures. it is astounding to me how easily people forget the past, how quick people are to abandon history; and even though they are focused on the future more than the past, they are focused on their future, failing to see the direction the future of the world is headed. However I do not believe that logic should be the one thing dictating our actions, if that were true humanity would still go into decline, but rather a different decline, a moral decline. Logic is wonderful, and should be a major part in our foundation, but say for instance, a man holds a gun to your mother's chest, and the only way to stop him in time is to jump in front of your mother and take the bullet yourself, that would be highly illogical, perhaps you could logically asses the situation and disarm the man without anyone getting hurt, but in this scenario there isn't enough time. The logical thing to do would be to let your mother die, but you know that the right thing to do is to take the bullet to save your mother, and what is right and what is wrong is debatable. Even now anyone who reads this will probably label me, as you said they do, however the misconception that you have to abandon logic to accept morality, and relinquish your rights as a free thinker to have faith, this idea is ludicrous! Logic and morality can coexist and in fact they balance each other out just as an old american symbol recognized only by a few, a three headed bald eagle, the heads represent the three branches, on talon holds arrows representing war and the other an olive branch, representing peace, one wing represents anarchy, and the other tyranny, and the theory is that if both extremes flap in unison working together a perfect balance is achieved, thus the same idea can be applied to logic and morality, logic dictating the reasonable thing to do and morality the compassionate kind thing to do, thus humanity falls into neither stupidity, or suffering. I want you to know that I thoroughly respect you and your writing, and that i totally agree with you, but I believe that all should be open mindedAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05270064782342288143noreply@blogger.com