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Originally Posted by spence
I think it highlights some of the problems with absolutes.
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Not really--oh, is that an absolute? A problem with absolutes is if you're worried about appearing to speak in absolutes, you might refrain from speaking. I didn't get the impression that either justplugit's quotes or Karl F's were intended to be absolutes. As justplugit said, they are tracks to run on. When we run on our chosen tracks, they are fraught with choice, opinion, experience, consequence, and the host of possibilites that individual runners bring. If each had first to decide that his track was absolute rather than a direction, he might never get started.
Karl F's and justplugit's quotes present different, somewhat contradictory tracks. The interesting thing would be to discuss the differences rather than creating an absolute strawman and dismissing it as problematic.