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Originally Posted by TheFeatheredÆtheling
Wisdom and intelligence have always been respected and always will be, but it's as if other virtues such as respect, integrity, honesty, compassion, loyalty, self-sacrifice, etc are no longer valued at all in our society. I suppose that these traditional virtues are seen as weak and unprofitable. In other words: I can be the most rude, self-centred, vile, vulgar, cruel-hearted scoundrel, but as long as I'm smart enough to prove everyone else wrong and step on them to get what I want, that's all that really matters; afterall, this is only logical.
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I agree, as we dissect this further I must explain that I am a follower of Jesus, and am not attacking individual faiths or spiritual beliefs.
Yes, society must have not only logic and science, but compassion, forgiveness, empathy and other noble virtues that are outside the realm of science, if not society would self destruct as the individual motive becomes paramount as you explained.
My issue is with the ignorance of the scientific method which leads to comments that Alan criticizes, "it's only a theory". This is a statement made in ignorance of what the word theory means.
What my position leans towards in terms of proposed solutions is increased funding of education, so that the classroom is at least on equal footing with the church pew. A teacher to student ratio of say, 1 to 20 would be a great improvement, more computers in classrooms so that students may improve their vocabulary (which, as Samuel Johnson once said "is the dressing of thought") and thus not only avoid such ignorant comments described by Alan, but make well informed decisions.