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Message: <blockquote data-quote="henschman" data-source="post: 2198958" data-attributes="member: 4235">The post provoked some thought for me... mostly about the nature of knowledge, reason, and conceptual thought, which are fascinating subjects to me.  I believe that every adult human being, save those with serious mental disabilities or injuries, has the capacity for reason.  People can recognize and correct irrational thought, even if they have been taught nothing else from birth.  However, it is only the exceptional human being who actually manages to overcome societal pressures and actually do this.It is these exceptional thinkers who have been solely responsible for the advancement of the human race through the ages.  If no one was capable of rejecting the philosophical paradigm of his time and culture, no human would have ever formed a language and been able to engage in complex conceptual thinking, and we would still be a race of beings with nothing more than a toddler's mental state... if our species was still in existence at all.BTW, I agree with you that prohibition and fear of Pit Bulls are irrational.  On the subject of fallacies, how about one of the big ones the U.S. political system depends on -- that people can be made party to a contract that they never agreed to, which was formed by men who died hundreds of years ago?You make an interesting use of the term "abolitionist."  I am friends with a group of folks who call themselves Abolitionists, but they use it a sense a lot closer to its 19th Century political meaning -- supporter of the abolition of slavery.  They take that belief right down to its logical conclusion, and oppose all non-consensual forms of human interaction.  I agree with them wholeheartedly in this, though I prefer the term "voluntarist" myself.</blockquote>

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