Rooting out the truth
Mar. 1st, 2006 09:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sawylHad a meeting today to try to thrash out an answer to last week's question about the necessity of root passwords. I attended in my usual role meeting role of domine canis, Aquinas to the HC's Doctor Universalis, and enjoyed myself rather more than usual.
Maybe it's the result of an upbringing heavy on dialectics, but I reckon there's nothing better than a good argument to clarify which of the points up for discussion are in question. There's nothing like a challenge for firming up one's own beliefs, for as Mill says, if you don't challenge stuff it becomes, "deprived of its vital effect on the character and conduct, the dogma becomes a mere formal profession." And we wouldn't want that, now, would we?
Maybe it's the result of an upbringing heavy on dialectics, but I reckon there's nothing better than a good argument to clarify which of the points up for discussion are in question. There's nothing like a challenge for firming up one's own beliefs, for as Mill says, if you don't challenge stuff it becomes, "deprived of its vital effect on the character and conduct, the dogma becomes a mere formal profession." And we wouldn't want that, now, would we?
