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Originally posted by wilbjammin
There may be an infinite number of possible meanings, but often the actual number of meanings created that people actually latch onto are few.
How can you do that? What if the reasons I tell you are lies? What if I'm deceiving myself and I tell you those self-deceptions? What if there are several reasons about an action, and some are good and some are bad - but I only let you know about the good ones? What if someone tells you that the reasons that someone else does something is completely different from the real reasons?
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With this belief the popular opinion is exactly what I'm trying to escape - just because a certain view on a particular action is felt by a large number of people doesn't mean that the popular opinion becomes the universal truth for everyone.
The idea is certered upon the premise that there is no one universal truth but several equal perspective truths.
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How can you do that? What if the reasons I tell you are lies? What if I'm deceiving myself and I tell you those self-deceptions? What if there are several reasons about an action, and some are good and some are bad - but I only let you know about the good ones?
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Then I will percieve what you are telling me to be good or bad by comparing it to my own defintions of the terms and determine whether your action and the reasoning behind your action was just or not.
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We can only know so much, and analyzing what someone says is important - but looking at the consequences of actions, and particularly the deliberateness of those actions are much more crucial in my opinion
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But to a homeless man who rapes a woman and gets 16 years in better conditions than a homeless life it isn't much of a punishment - is it? Or what about the "crazy" homeless man who rapes a woman and doesn't even view his actions to be wrong? To him his actions were justifiable - to him, he isn't crazy.. Do you get the point I'm trying to make here?
It's all relative.