>What is important here is that we make the
>effort to find out what we can about our choices, and the more important
>the choice, the more diligently we should investigate, and choose
>between them with benevolent intent.
This makes good sense to me, though the importance of a choice is in itself
subjective... well, we cannot escape that. I guess it comes down to the
point of living your life as consciously as possible. Get as much
information as "reasonable" - or as much as you have the time to spare...
>The best defence against enslavement is a good
>offence on behalf of freedom, and an ounce of enslavement prevention
>is worth a pound of the struggle necessitated in pursuit of an after-the-
>fact cure.
But again, freedom is an elusive concept, isn't it? How sensitive are it's
boundaries? Isn't other people's freedom violated by mereley possibly
violating it? For example (as my availability heuristic suggests), is
driving drunk not violating other's freedom by *threatening* it? (I do not
want to express my opinion on that matter, it is just an example...) What
I'm saying is, how can you go into the "offence on behalf of freedom" if
that freedom is of your choosing. Of course, abstract freedom may be tracked
down to a few principles, but once you start acting on it, it appears to be
highly arbitrary still.
Quite a relativist attitude - argh!
Petrified with fear,
Jayr
p.s.: It seems I can't get rid of that spectre... relativism...
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