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This is the kind of non-absolutist morality that is destroying the world.
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And that is a misidentification that is common among others who don't yet know me. I realize you're new, but have you ever read my article list? I'm thinking, nah, this guy has no idea of me (yet).
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Life will always have meaning
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Meaning to whom?
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Virtue, good, and evil are all abstract concepts brought into reality by man's actions.
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Agreed.
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You cannot apply a concept unless you know what it means.
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Agreed.
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If you don't know it's meaning, you're acting without knowledge.
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Agreed.
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To act without knowledge is to act with death as the standard of your morality.
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Agreed.
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How can you say that people mean, but words don't?
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People mean things with their use of words. Words are "brought into reality by man's actions." As rational differentiators, we divide and unite instantiated objects from and with other instantiated objects -- and we crown our division-and-unification with a "word." This is the manner in which people mean.
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Words and definitions are at the essence of understanding reality and acting rationally. Without words, "people" would just be some vague concept with no name.
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And without people, words wouldn't be anything at all. Words are our tools, and they come about in a very special way (words aren't mere arbitrary "sproutings of society"). There is a correct way to use words (and a million incorrect ways) -- to use them in reference to the initial need that was met by their first coming to be.
One ought not deny the need in reality that was met by the formation of the concept that any word signifies. Words are "meant" to refer to something in reality of significance to man.
Ed
(Edited by Ed Thompson on 5/25, 8:04pm)
(Edited by Ed Thompson on 5/25, 8:05pm)
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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
