Reply #50: no one thinks they are wrong

[ulTRAX]

lapislzi wrote: "Talk to me about moral high ground. Gandhi held it, MLK held it.Just 'cause the RW's co-opted it doesn't mean we can't seize it back."

I doubt anyone goes though life thinking their core values are wrong. Most values are part of a self-justifying belief system. Once once accepts some basic assumptions, one deprives themselves of the intellectual tools needed to disprove the system. I think all are susceptible. Religions are prime examples of such closed-loop belief systems.

"I'm not talking about a black/white world, but I see nothing wrong with ideological virtue. Nothing at all."

Nor do I. I can only add that any belief system should be self-correcting as opposed to self-justifying.