Fear not your own axioms.

JDN 2456336 EDT 13:14.

 

I got into a very strange Facebook argument yesterday (you may call it a siwoti), with someone I actually agree with about 95%. We both believe in reason and science, we largely agree on moral and political issues. Yet this argument somehow became fierce.

The question was this: Is it possible to make moral arguments without axioms or assumptions? I insisted that it was not, but that this isn't really a problem, because some axioms are much safer bets than others....