Of course, as Kant once noted, the soaring bird thinks that it is the air that holds it back from flying even more freely and that if only it could fly above the air, it would be truly free — only to find that, in the void of space, it flaps its wings in vain, having no air.
You can if you wish describe freedom from morality as “freedom from a burden” — one could also correctly call it “psychopathy as an ideal.” One could describe freed from truth as a “liberation” (the postmoderns do) — one could also call it madness.
Good luck with such “freedom."
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She fought the X-Men and the Avengers, tormented the mutant Dazzler, and legendarily nearly destroyed Carol Danvers' mind and threw her off a bridge.
(Spider-Woman saved her.)
A ghost of Carol Danvers' psyche was now living inside Rogue's mind, and the inner conflict was driving her insane.
Rogue's fight with Carol Danvers and the X-Men at the Pentagon was pure chance: Rogue and Carol bumped and they both freaked out.
Claremont narrates in X-Men 158: "It was a physical and psychic trauma that scarred both women." Claremont was already laying the seeds of Rogue's redemption arc in 158 — she'll join the X-Men in 171.
So there used to be a sea that cut right through North America, the Western Interior Seaway.
And it was a place of horror.
There have been some legendary sea monsters at various epochs in the earth's past, but never were there as many monsters at one time and place than the Western Interior Seaway in the Campanian Era.
First, don't think shallow water is safe. The coasts were haunted by Deinosuchus, one of the largest crocodilians ever to live.
They ate T Rexes (and anything else) that got to close to the water, so that should tell you where we are as a baseline.
Then you had the giant predatory cephalopods, like Tusoteuthis.
As Putnam notes, the fact/value dichotomy fails because it never manages to actually distinguish the two entirely, due to a kind of necessary entanglement (or kinds) between putative "facts" and "values."
What we have is a situation of distinction where in some facts are not values, some facts are values, some values are facts, and some values are not facts.
What we do not have is a fact/value dichotomy which amounts to a metaphysical dualism.
This is one of my rules. I use language quite carefully. When someone response to something I have said by calling it "word salad," nothing is lost by blocking them.
There is no possibility they are being an honest interlocutor.
Anyone with more that a child's level of acquaintance with theology should understand that talk about God will always be quite unlike talk about anything else, unlike talk about any creature (which everything but God is).
This does *seem like* a huge incoherence in transgender ideology.
It seems as if it is absurd on its face to say that children can consent to medical "transition" and a lifetime of medicalization and sterilization, but not consent to smoking a cigarette or having a beer.
An honest atheist (if there were such a thing) might say that he does not believe in an uncreated creator. No!—he must pretend that the concept of an uncreated creator is nonsense!
As if everything that does an action need be susceptible to such an action!