On 2014-07-29 at 23:03, Mauricio Nascimento wrote: > On 2014-07-29 22:13, Garreau, Alexandre wrote: >>> On 2014-07-29 20:36, Werner Koch wrote: >>>> On Tue, 29 Jul 2014 19:11, [email protected] said: >>>>> not to refuse all GFDL stuff but to accept only “100% free” things, even >>>>> when the freedom provided is useless (like the right to modify >>>> >>>> Well, there are different opinions on whether freedom is useless or >>>> useful. It sometimes depends on where you are currently living. >>>> Guantanamo or Moscow. >>> >>> Freedom is never useless. It gives you the opportunity to make your own >>> choices rather than just have someone else decide for you. >> >> Ok, so can we say the freedom to change a truth to a lie is a freedom? > > Yes ... "Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority." - Francis > Bacon -<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daughter_of_Time#cite_note-1> > Most of the time the truth is relative according to your own perception > of the facts.
Completely right, you made me reconsider my statement, actually invariant sections are indeed an ethical issue. > For some God is the only truth, for others Love is the real truth. Some > says God is Love, others say Love is Kindness. > And all of them are right but none of them have the Truth because it is > an abstraction. And what’s about Science which would say “only sensible experience” ;) >> Because in that case you’re making choice for someone else, the fact >> changing truth. > > People are responsible to make their own choices. > It is like the relation between the teacher and the student. > The teacher can explain something to you, but he cannot understand it > for you. Good analogy, I keep it for later, it is really good… > Sometimes I just want to participate in a good conversation. :D
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