ElectEngr

Last night about 02:30 GMT, I was flipping through the FM band hear in the local area and came across the Bot Radio Network station in St Louis. They had some show on were a fundi was playing a tape of an interview with a Humanist.

Basicaly the fundi was palying the tape and then lambasting the Humanist (I didn't get the name).

When it came to the question "Was Hitler a good man?" when it came to situational ethics, the Humanist said "Absolutly", then the fundi goes off on some glurge about Humanist and Absolutes.

I thought for a moment while listening to this glurge...Yeah, there are absolutes. The absolute value of the interger 1 plus the absolute value of the interger one is equal to the absolute value of the integer two.

Now there's a absolute that we can use.

Later,
ElectEngr

meritocrat

Of course there are absolutes in life. Don't all people see the sky on a clear day as blue? Isn't 10 x 10=100?

Shadowy Man

Oops.. you got the second one right, but not the first.

Absolute: Twice ionized oxygen emits light at 500.7 nanometers.
Objective: Light at 500.7 nanometers is blue.
Subjective: It is a pretty shade of blue.

The experience of "blue" is not an absolute one; it does not exist except for in the observer. However, it is fairly objective since we all experience virtually the same color when we see that wavelength of light. Those who see it different are considered anomalous.