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Comment author: prase 19 June 2011 08:15:48PM 0 points [-]

By the way, by a universally good idea you mean a) an idea about which any person can be persuaded by a rational argument, or b) objectively morally good idea, or c) something else? Because if a), it is very unlikely to be so. There are people who don't accept logic.

Comment author: [deleted] 20 June 2011 06:46:20PM 0 points [-]

I mean an idea that, if properly understood, every human would agree with, so a). Well, there are some humans that, for various reasons, might not be able to actually follow the reasoning or who are so broken to reject correct arguments and whatnot. So "every" is certainly exaggerated, but you get the idea. I would not expect rational disagreement.