ISRW my ass

Is not the motto, the slogan of The Beaglesonian Institute, “A forum for reasonable discussion among reasonable people”? To me, and doubtless millions of our readers, that means that anything is up for logical discussion. Oh I suppose there are certain things like your deist god, and my somewhat rigid atheism, that are beyond discussion. Well they are not really beyond discussion, we can and do discuss them, but at some point we run into something like faith, which I personally distrust, but there is no way we can build a theory without it, even geometry is nothing without its axioms.

But still our more general beliefs, and the laws we wish to propose to run the country when it finally turns to us and asks us for our opinion, are subject to logical discussion. Some fundamentalist religious type would have no place in this forum, because there would be nothing to discuss because everything he believed, it was something God told him, so how do you argue with that.

See and this, what do you call it, internal sense of right and wrong, sounds a lot like faith, like here it is, this is my own internal sense of right and wrong, I don’t need no stinking logic, I don’t need to know no history or nothing, I just look in my heart, I suppose, and there is the truth, and all your arguments mean nothing to me, for I posses my own truth. Well geez, why am I talking to a guy like this?

Gay marriage, I believe I have come out for it on numerous occasions, and I have had my historical references, and my logical discussion, but Beagles has his ISRW (Internal Sense of Right and Wrong), so why am I even talking to him?

As long as you play the ISRW card, I don’t see how we can have any discussion, it’s just like saying god told you so.

And what is this howler about the old fashioned values of our ancestors? When is the last time you read anything about our ancestors? What are these values that you mourn the loss of, slavery, wars of conquest, sacrificing to stone idols?

I suppose I have had my problems with authority, I don’t know if that’s necessarily a band thing, often authority is wrong. it’s always good to be a skeptic. I pay my taxes, except for a few minor skirmishes way back in my youth I have not run athwart of the law. Oh wait a minute I think you are calling me out for being too compliant to the law by letting it tell me to buy insurance, live next to black (colored? Did you say that on purpose, just to get a rise?) people, and be nice to gays?

Buying insurance seems to me like paying taxes. If you don’t pay for your own insurance then everybody else has to pay for it, so I think it’s reasonable to pay my share. The next two are not things the government tells you to do.

It was the Vietnam War I was against, not necessarily all wars. WW II seemed to me like a war to be fought, and certainly if those Michiganders raised an army and marched on the hog butcher I would take up arms.

Sometimes you have very good days Beagles, but today I have to think that you have gotten into the medical marijuana, that your state is offering as refreshments for the great universal compulsory gay wedding of all its citizens which is surely right around the corner.

This ISRW, is something we need to discuss else we face the sorry prospect of one sentence posts:

My ISRW tells me this is wrong (Beagles)

My ISRW tells me it isn’t (Uncle Ken)

Our readers will want more.