OIA'I'O
the longer i live
You nod. “You would think that, if you thought it was a social contract. Does that mean then you think children are blameless, in a way? If they don’t know better? And the mentally underdeveloped?” As he says that he doesn’t know about the remainder, you simply nod. You didn’t expect him to. You don’t expect anyone to have all the answers really. And if anything it isn’t about the answers so much as the reasoning that gets you there.
“Oh certainly there is. There is the actual truth of the thing, there’s you believing it, and then there’s you believing it for the right sorts of reasons. But yes, presumably if you don’t know something, your telling someone else that thing doesn’t let them know it. If you don’t have good reasons for it, it seems impossible that someone else could have the right reasons when you didn’t to begin with. “
“Oh certainly there is. There is the actual truth of the thing, there’s you believing it, and then there’s you believing it for the right sorts of reasons. But yes, presumably if you don’t know something, your telling someone else that thing doesn’t let them know it. If you don’t have good reasons for it, it seems impossible that someone else could have the right reasons when you didn’t to begin with. “
the longer it feels
