File spoon-archives/foucault.archive/foucault_1997/97-04-15.040, message 116


From: Solipsist9-AT-aol.com
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 1997 18:19:52 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: why do we not kill?


In a message dated 97-04-12 15:54:28 EDT, lobster-AT-mail.utexas.edu (mitchell
wilson) writes:

<< common sense tells me that we are social.  any counter argument
 has the burden of proof, not the common sense, self-evident one.  while >>
 
but common sense could be nothing more than your ideology which was formed
throughout your upbringing. are you saying that there is some absolute common
sense that we ALL have? you'd be hard pressed to prove that one. also, you
are assuming that there is some human nature that ALL human beings share. i
say, prove such a thing exists before you give it characteristics. all i'm
saying is that you are making certain assumptions or beliefs out to be
absolute, universal truths. if just one human being doesn't share that truth,
your argument is flawed. something i consider to be common sense, you may not
agree is common sense. how then can you rely a common sense if it's not
common?
john
solipsist9-AT-aol.com




   

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