Contact with sincerity and relative moralism
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Posted by: NikW ® 10/22/2005, 07:31:15 Author Profile Edit Alert Moderators

> and other people sharing that idealism and that was very inspiring and beautiful < Well yes - spirit of the age and all that. But isn't that just another personal experience being subject to an undeserved value of 'universalism' - much  like the  personal experience of Knowledge is 'universalised' by Rawat ? Suppose instead of DLM we were talking about the Hitler Youth - participants in that I'm sure must have said "and other people sharing that idealism and that was very inspiring and beautiful". Of course the level of harm caused by being in DLM was far less than being in the Hitler Youth, yet I can not help but feel that there is something profoundly demeaning in placing particular value on something that was of such dubious purpose. The individual has to take value from all their experiences - that's essential to enjoying a rounded existence - but IMO experiences such as furthering, maintaining and supporting a cult, even though we can personally take something positive from it - should leave us with a sense of discomfort, much an in the way that medical research based on Concentration Camp experiments or intelligence about terrorism gained from torture leaves any 'thinking person' with a sense of distaste - no matter what benefits follow. Nik

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