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Absolutely. I apologize if I had anything to do with your difficulties in putting your thoughts together. Take all the time you need to formulate your arguments!

Indeed, people can be conditioned to say that wrong things are right. Take, for example, that Star Trek episode where Picard was tortured into admitting that there were 5 lights on display, rather than four. Even if the torturer succeeded in breaking Picard, there still would have been 4 lights...

Because there is an objective truth that the Nazis contradicted: that truth being the inherent worth of a human life, no matter how “problematic” or “annoying” or “economy crushing” or “sub-human” anyone may claim them to be. Human life has inherent worth, no matter what any evil dictator says...

Read “Man’s Search for Meaning” by Victor Frankl. He makes the points I’d like to make much, much better than I ever could.

No! Absolutely not! Even if Germany took over the world and succeeded in genocide, there would still be people that think they are wrong, and they would still be wrong. Of course, a lot of people would support them just because they are in power, but those people don’t hold a philosophy of...

True. I believe knowledge is pretty much inevitable. It’s hard to stick your fingers in your ears and go “lalalala” till you die (or realize that to know is better not to know)

The outcome has to be 4 to be true. If I used flawed logic to come to the conclusion that the outcome is 5, I’d be wrong, but I could still argue for it. Same goes for moral discussions. It is possible to argue in favor of the wrong thing. Doesn’t mean there isn’t a right answer.

Moral truths have to be universal. Saying that they change from person to person would be like saying 2 and 2 make 4 for some people and 5 for others. That doesn’t make sense. But if everything is finite and comes to an end, then nothing will matter after that end, period. There can be no...

Ignorance is bliss, but at a price. The price of ineptitude, incompetence, and ultimately huge regret. Knowledge hurts now, but ultimately allows you to live the good life.

You’re so right, and yet missing your own point. Take math. Math is objective proof that objectivity exists. 2 and 2 make 4, no matter how many people believe differently. I believe that there are philosophical truths that are just as true as “2 and 2 make 4”, and I also believe that, like...

Complexity is no curse. IGNORANCE is a curse. A better understanding of this complex world is a blessing, not a curse. Have you ever seen The Matrix?

Absolutely! My favorite subject is religion. My second favorite subject is politics. I’m very fun at parties.

Good and evil ABSOLUTELY exist. You are correct in that it feels subjective, because often one man can deem something evil that another man deems good, but there is a solution: objective truth, which exists outside of humanity. I believe that objective truth does exist, and by reason, logic, and...

I’m gonna hard disagree with this too. I believe there is an objective good which can be striven too in the world, and empathy usually helps us be closer aligned with that good than not. If we were completely heartless, we would never “feel bad”, but we wouldn’t actually do things better! I’d...

I wish. That would take a lot of time and money I don’t have. If I don’t end up finding a spouse at college right off the bat and advancing at maximum speed up the corporate ladder doesn’t take up all my time post-college, I intend to take up swordplay as a hobby. Both because it is incredibly...

Yea, but less child indoctrination, religion, and cult-like status. Joining is strictly voluntary, doesn’t require any particular religion (though most that end up joining are driven by religious obligations to morality) and can be done at any age.

Your brain running a different OS than most brains doesn’t make you stupid! It makes you different. Better than being the same as everyone else, IMHO. Of course, you’ll have to learn to adapt your unique function so that the common man can understand it, but that can easily be done with...

Please, you flatter me! *tips hat* No, PVP typically means “player versus player”, so I can see how you could make that error. Doesn’t equal stupidity.

“Acquire”, when spoken by a Knight, means purchase or otherwise barter for. Predators Versus Prey.

Honor says nothing about whether or not you can burn books! So long as they’re your books. The implication is that you also have to acquire the book before you can burn it. Time isn’t linear in PVP, right?