[Rhodes22-list] speaking of chilling out

[Herb Parsons]

Are you sure of that? Morally, I mean...

Lynn Hoffman wrote:
> Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more 
> uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is 
> right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been 
> the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men 
> who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly 
> civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant. (H. L. Mencken)
>
> and don't bother with a moral critique of Mencken. he was a bit of 
> jerk? got it. but what an interesting and  barely controvertible idea.
>
> lynn
> s/v bang BANG (unlaunched)
>   

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Herb Parsons
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