[WikiEN-l] Re: A neo-Nazi wikipedia

[Ray Saintonge]

El C wrote:

>>We agree its good to keep the moral highground, but my moral
>>    
>>
>highground *isn't situational --call it "abstract ideals" if you like.
> 
>Everyone has ideals, only the most narrow-minded, agenda-driven of
>minds consider the basis for these to be limited to... shal we say,
>situational isolationism.
>
>The issue isn't with the ideals (abstract or otherwise), but rather,
>to whenever there is a risk for these to serve merely as a pretext for
>a highly a *selective* approach, one wherein these ideals are
>juxtaposed, transposed, and superimposed to any concrete case in an
>un-balanced, inaccurate, and un-objective way.
>
>Rationality goes hand in hand with relationality. Unfortunately,
>empathy often isn't enough to bring a sympathy which is balanced, be
>it for those absorbed in abstract ideals, petty proceduralism, or
>both. The forest *and* the tress, in other words. Either one, in
>itself, is obviously insufficient and self-defeating.
>
Having frequently engaged in such pedantic drivel myself, I can 
perfectly understand what you say.

Unfortunately, sometimes "a cigar is only a cigar".

Ec