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I am committed to logic, reason, and the investigation of the universe via the scientific method. I am skeptical of hierarchies based on privilege and anti-democratic principles. In the bigger picture, humans are hardly dissimilar enough from one another to justify anything more than a soft aristocracy. The people and their elected rulers should be in a mutually beneficial relationship. We are ALL made up of atoms and are born with a relatively equal human potential. While people may measure different on certain specifics, no human is objectively superior to any other human, anymore than any human is objectively superior to monkey, dogs, jellyfish, or bacteria. The feeling of superiority is a biased human perception. Beware of self-proclaimed "superiors".

CuriousCreature 7 Feb 12
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Logic, reason and science are tools, not ends. They provide means to achieve ends but they are neither good nor bad in themselves. Only the ends we posit for ourselves can be good or bad. It is a mistake to take theses as ends, I think it is a serious mistake.

Our sense of duty to one another is based on our, family, our community, the country where we live. I believe that justice is only possible in a democracy. The general will of the people is not solely reducible to logic, reason or science.

Logic, reason and science enable man. They provide the tools which enable us to mold nature to our ends. We are uniquely superior to all known animals in this respect.

cava Level 7 Feb 12, 2018
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