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I was listening to one of the hosts of "Red Eye Radio" this morning (Gary McNamara). He was analyzing a story broadcast by NBC 5 Dallas-Ft. Worth that a Western Hills High School parent was filed a bullying complaint against Aledo High School which defeated Western Hills High by a score of 91 - 0. Mr. McNamara was against the law suit saying in essence that losing, even by large margins, builds character. What Mr. McNamara missed is the deeper issue: Privacy. i.e. minding one's own business. Just because something is printed in a news paper or broadcast over the air waves doesn't make the subject matter automatically relevant, material or worthy of discussion. American counter-culture insists that privacy doesn't exist and, for that matter, reality doesn't exist either so everything is a matter of opinion, all opinions are equal and reality is what the majority says it is. Nothing of course could be farther from the truth. If a tree in a for...

One of the tools in the idealistic box is the "what if..." scenario: What if you met the President of the United States? The question makes two erroneous presumptions. The first one is that everything happens at random (malevolent universe premise and deterministic behavior). The second is the presumption that anything is possible. Both presumptions are wrong. People have free will and the universe is orderly and predictable and not just anything is possible. The impossible by definition is not possible. - You're Welcome

The overall weakness of the articles in The Objective Standard stems from a shallow approach. The articles fail to address philosophical and/or psycho-epistemological foundations and so the articles are tautalogical and at the very least rhetorically ineffective. - You're Welcome