Re: 8 & 9 year old girls riding bicycles

On Tue, 24 Dec 2024 20:17:54 -0500, Catrike Ryder
<Soloman@old.bikers.org> wrote:

On Tue, 24 Dec 2024 19:47:05 -0500, Frank Krygowski
<frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
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On 12/24/2024 7:16 AM, Catrike Ryder wrote:

 
Justice is a subjective evaluation.

Oh good grief. "Subjective evaluation":  Our tricycle rider's latest
overused trope, intended to shut off discussion that makes him feel out
of his depth.

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Apparently, the concepts of subjective and objective are over
Krygowski's low brow.
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I think we're seeing an unfortunate side effect of democratic ideals.
When the people hear the phrase "All men are created equal" some of them
decided "My ideas are just as valid as anyone's, including the greatest
of geniuses who have devoted their entire life to studying the issue at
hand." Which is nonsense, of course.

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Actually, the value of everyone's ideas are simply what other people
choose to put on them.
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According to Abraham Lincoln, the founders did not mean that "all were
equal in color, size, intellect, moral developments, or social capacity."
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Especially intellect. It's blindingly obvious that those who have
studied nothing but their own daydreams are very confident that their
daydreams are completely valid.
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It's Dunning-Kruger at its best.

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Intellect is simply the ability to reason. You either have it or you
don't. It's not something one can learn from a book or in a classroom.
Many people think they are intellectual because they can repeat what
somebody told them to say.

You are over simplifying that as the ability to reason, and get a
useful solution, is, in part, often determined by their existing
knowledge.
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Cheers,

John B.