> While it's true that many individuals can find no objective grounds in
> their experience for belief in objective ethical principles, e.g. can
> find no objective grounds in their own experience for judging the
> relation between Beatrice and Benedict in Much Ado About Nothing
> objectively better than the relation of a baby murdering psychopath to
> babies, this doesn't demonstrate that there are no such grounds.
>
> What the Bedlamite implication demonstrates is the psychopathology of
> the individuals in question, a psychopathology also demonstrated by
> mistaken identification of "reason" with axiomatic deductive reasoning
> and a linked immunity to a reductio ad absurdum argument.
>
> Ted
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And to think Doug "accused" me of having a private joke with myself!