Your response demonstrates the problem of perception, which is structurally false to fact. This problem was first observed by David Hume, and, more recently, Alfred Korzybski. See David Hume, Concerning Human Understanding and Concerning the Principles of Morals (1777); and Alfred Korzybski...
There is a distinction between morals and ethics, for while there are different moral codes, ethics refers to an applied moral system. It is like the distinction between science and technology: there are different branches of scientific discipline, but technology refers to applied science; and...
“There is no ‘redness’ in nature, only different wave lengths of radiation.”
- Alfred Korzybski, “The Nature of Langauge in the Perceptual Processes,” reprinted from Perception: An Approach to Personality (1951).
What is perceived to be the cause may not necessarily produce the effect. If...
Count Tolstoy spent much of the latter part of his life searching for the meaning of existence. For someone who had everything in life - fame, fortune, family, freedom - he wanted more; he wanted to know why. He studied all the sciences and philosophy, as well as the great religions of the...
“A mother tells her infant that two and two make four, the child remembers the proposition, and is able to count four to all the purposes of life, till the course of his education brings him among philosophers, who fright him from his former knowledge by telling him that four is a certain...
The philosopher said that the purpose of life was to search for the truth. The poet said that the purpose of life was to live. The preacher said that this life was to prepare one for the next life. And the mortician said that the purpose of life, in the end, was to keep him in business.