Okay, my friend, against my better judgment, I’ll pursue this with you. After all, you are one of the remaining few here willing even to engage my points at all.
I have now.
On the other hand, what does this have to do with the manner in which I construe the meaning of dasein [on this thread] pertaining to conflicted human interactions in the is/ought world? And how, with respect to your own conflicted interactions with others, are you not yourself down in the hole that “I” am in?
The thing about numbers mathematically is that they would not only appear to exist, but they would appear to exist objectively for all of us. Thus the existence of this very technology. The tricky part though seems to revolve around those who insist that we invented them versus those who insist that, on the contrary, we only discovered them.
On the other other hand, though, the Science Channel last night noted there were very serious scientists speculating about the existence of a multiverse – a TOE reality in which universes may well exist in which the laws of physics themselves may well be different.
Indeed, go figure things like this that far out on the metaphysical limb.
Schtick: a gimmick, comic routine, style of performance, etc., associated with a particular person.
As I noted to Phyllo above, a part of my “routine” here is indeed embedded theatrically in “the polemicist waiting for godot” schtick.
Also, it is embedded in some obscure murky way in this:
He was like a man who wanted to change all; and could not; so burned with his impotence; and had only me, an infinitely small microcosm to convert or detest.
John Fowles
But other, more somber, discomfitting facets revolve around the very real “agony of choice in the face of uncertainty”. It’s less a schtick than a grim [and constant] reminder that I really am down in this fucking hole that I have thought myself into believing.
And this: that, right around the corner, is oblivion.
Besides, I do not argue that morality does not exist. I argue that from my frame of mind here and now it does not appear to exist essentially, objectively, necessarily, universally etc.
That, instead, it appears to be embodied in an existential contraption rooted in the manner in which here and now I construe the meaning of dasein and conflicting goods and political economy.
At least try to grapple with that distinction.
So, with respect to such moral and political conflagrations as abortion, homosexuality, gun control, affirmative action, animal rights, the role of government etc., conflicts would be resolved if only everyone gets what they want?
Well, let’s just say that here, our understanding of, among other things, the real world, is very, very different.
What can I say…
If there was an Olympic medal for miscontruing my points here, you would be bringing home the gold, the silver and the bronze.