tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post8434072725885426351..comments2024-03-28T09:59:13.754-07:00Comments on bionic mosquito: The “Bad” Liberalbionic mosquitohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12002548958078731031noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-35461955684784666132018-12-05T14:49:25.362-08:002018-12-05T14:49:25.362-08:00Yes, regarding your last paragraph.
To your pre...Yes, regarding your last paragraph. <br /><br />To your previous paragraphs, such reason requires some presuppositions as foundations; once it is decided that these presuppositions are unnecessary - e.g. God is removed from the equation - then on what basis is "reason" to be judged?<br /><br />In other words, can I not use logic to conclude that the gas chamber is reasonable? Better - eugenics. Isn't it reasonable to remove the less-than healthy / pure / robust from the gene pool? Could be reasonable, depending on the foundation upon which you build that logic.bionic mosquitohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12002548958078731031noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-46614313974747109582018-12-04T09:37:25.970-08:002018-12-04T09:37:25.970-08:00My comment was based on these 2 quotes:
"…Ho...My comment was based on these 2 quotes:<br /><br />"…Holmes helped move American legal thinking towards legal realism, as summed up in his maxim: "The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience." Holmes espoused a form of moral skepticism and opposed the doctrine of natural law, marking a significant shift in American jurisprudence. In one of his most famous opinions, his dissent in Abrams v. United States (1919), he regarded the United States Constitution as "an experiment, as all life is an experiment"…<br /><br />"As a real positivist Holmes could write that, "Sovereignty is a form of power, and the will of the sovereign is law because he has power to compel obedience or punish disobedience and for no other reason.”<br /><br />In them, there is a statement that reason was itself abandoned. The rejection of logic and therefore the natural law that logic posits. He is by definition not being reasonable.<br /><br />I see what you are saying though. Basing law on power is itself is using a form of reason. That reason focuses on the power of the sovereign as opposed to the power of the Sovereign God and the order made evident in His creation.<br /><br />RMBnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-38678846876617775222018-12-03T16:27:28.082-08:002018-12-03T16:27:28.082-08:00"The rejection of reason for the substitution..."The rejection of reason for the substitution of naked power."<br /><br />Naked power is reasonable to the guy employing it. Without some pre-conditions to liberty, who are you to say that he is being unreasonable?<br /><br />:-)bionic mosquitohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12002548958078731031noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-24960813498360158652018-12-03T11:40:35.241-08:002018-12-03T11:40:35.241-08:00The "bad liberal" sounds like a postmode...The "bad liberal" sounds like a postmodernist though they predate postmodernism. The rejection of reason for the substitution of naked power. The material and secular aspects are both very liberal and modern, but those OWHolmes quotes were unexpected.RMBnoreply@blogger.com