The end of this Blog ?

Axiologist, Doc, I want to thank you for your participation to this Blog. Your input contributed to shape a debate on a subject which was, from my own perspective, quite uncertain at the start and is now much clearer. Of course, nothing is settled. But, at least, we now know where we stand and each of the individual ingredients of the debate has gained in precision by a large amount.

Doc, I do not lump you with nazis. At least not with the nazis you commonly see in movies, cold, sadistic, black uniform, and all. What I had in mind are all the vast numbers of very nice people who were nazi party members in the early 1930s because they thought Hitler was genuinely doing the right thing to take Germany out of the Great Depression and away from civil war (in a way, he did), or the equally large numbers ov very nice palestinians living in the occupied territories now and who are members of Hamas because it happens to be the only organization able to run any kind of public services there. One may be genuinely certain to be doing the right thing in that sort of circumstances, and this is a frightening thought.

Behind Logical Positivism I sensed we could touch on something deeper and here we are. We have a glimpse of the familar tragedy of human life. We need ethics and to have ethics we need beliefs. But we are blind as to where our beliefs lead us. If only you were right, Doc and it was possible to manufacture clean, emission-free, beliefs.

I think I have done my job and clarified the question I wanted to clarify. Now we could go on and try to create new beliefs. If possible, uplifting beliefs. But this is not what I feel like doing now. If one of you (Axiologist ?) wants to do it, I would be happy to contribute.