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%SELF REFERENTIAL THEORY 860304
Suppose that a theory of values involves the value
judgment that anybody who fulfill the conditions which are
necessary for honestly testing the theory---should be
automatically rejected as being unworthy of acceptance.
Can such a theory of values be validated? Can the people
who believe in such a theory discover that the theory is
leading to their personal and communal disintegration, or
will their theory blind them and make them ignorant of the
consequences of their belief in the theory? Can a self-
validating theory be tested by those who believe in it---
without bias, in a way which transcends the theory?
A theory of values which requires objectivity all the
time does not permit insights which transcend objectivity.
If objectivity is regarded as the only possible way to
valid truth, then anybody who travels any other way to
truth is to be rejected; especially upon the discovery of
truths which call into question the ultimate value of
objective truths. Any view which contradicts the view
that objective truth is the ultimate truth---must be a
view which is in error. Any person who holds to such a
view with great conviction and refuses to yield to the
superior view of objective researchers, must be perverted
and intent upon undermining reliable knowledge. Such
people must be rejected to protect reliable knowledge.
They can not with integrity be respected. They must be
rejected to protect the integrity of human knowledge. Is
that not true?
Pre-scientific people believed in all kinds of
superstitions, myths and primitive religions which caused
their lives to be filled with great fear. In their
ignorance they feared things which were not real.
Scientists have freed mankind from such fear of things
which are not real. People who trust reflexive ways to
knowledge which are non-objective, threaten the security
which scientists have learned to provide for humanity. It
is only proper that scientists become defensive and fight
to protect their way of knowing for sure that they are
right.
There are many people in the world who would rob us o
the freedom to know the truth. The world must be made
free for objective truth seekers so that they may seek the
objective truth without being vulnerable to those who
would deprive us of our freedom and security. This is why
scientists have dedicated themselves to providing all
kinds of bombs and missiles and strategic defense
initiatives to make us all more secure and free to seek
objective truths upon which we can stake our lives and the
lives of all creatures on our blue planet.
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