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» redback - High Ground

In response to High Ground posted by BrianTubbs:

I reckon you raise some good points, Brian...and I seem slightly irreverent when I respond to them. I'm an Aussie!

I suspect (a suspicion in wet cement) Australia comes from a different mindset that is possibly as deeply rooted. We don't revere our Founding Fathers, don't get excited about our independence from the UK nor do we have a Bill of Rights.
But we do take care of business despite these 'shortcomings'. Means we may have less things to argue about, perhaps than the USA? That may even keep us better focused, more open to consensus??? Do we really need legislation to give each other a fair go here or do principles of common law suffice.

I really don't have compelling answers but I'm interested in what dynamic Migisi uncovers about your country.

Yep...to some extent we need to understand our past to understand our future...but the end-game is surely about deciding what to do in the future, isn't it. Not trying to reach unanimous agreement on the what/why of the past. Agree to disagree...move on...may be our unspoken mantra. I think the technical term is "laid back".

"...such a person surrenders any claim to pass morally binding or compelling judgments on another person, group, or society. It just ends up with a "He said-She said" back-and-forth."

Which must get frustrating for those playing that game, don't you think? Because either side of that divide is a mine field. And the middle ground seems at best lazy or wrong depending on one's ruling philosophy. I'm old enough and learned enough to understand the historical dilemna that brought us to this possible impasse.

While philosophers ponder these things, the farmer lays his crops, the storeman stocks the warehouse, many of us stay on struggle street.

I'm thinking if we all wait to get the desired MORAL COMPASS ( you are shouting??) the decisions we'd make in the interim is to leave many too-hard decisions in abeyance for too long. Or we clumsily tinker at the edges until someone else bears the responsibility for the decision.

Maybe what passes for a good leader nowadays is one who preaches to the converted believing it gives him enough mandate to drag the rest kicking and screaming...or sleeping...along with him.

-- posted by redback