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In reply to the discussion: I saw Zero Dark Thirty Today [View all]patrice
(47,992 posts)this is toward individuals confronting the problem personally, puzzling it out and deciding, rather than taking other individual's words for what they should think/decide.
I know there's a problem with that, because people seem to have lost their ability to question deeply, so figuring things out is limited by that.
It's a risk, but if we are ever to have a chance of avoiding herd mentalities that, under certain circumstances, lead to various forms of holocaust, people need to engage in moral reasoning for themselves. In order to do that, a problem must be posed. Reasoning requires challenge/problems. This is why even polemics with which one agrees are not that satisfactory, lose their buzz, and need newer bigger buzzes. There's no personal identification with a principle to provide a more or less stable core.