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Thanks for bringing this up. I truly believe that the way we approach this question has far reaching implications for who are are as a society. There can be nothing more helpful or detrimental to our conversations with eachother than our idea of the nature of truth.
I think I'm with you in the spirit of your post, but I would like to make a clear distinction between belief and truth. My understanding leads me to believe that we all harbor a belief of what we think the truth actually is, but the actual truth resides outside of our notions (in the sense that it would exist if our notions did not exist, not that our notions are devoid of truth). All have their own perception of real truth, but because human perception varies in so many ways... our belief of the truth seldom approaches actual truth.
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If you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance for survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.
~ Winston Churchill
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