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Whitaker’s First Law on Being Right

Posted by Bob on August 14th, 2005 under Comment Responses, How Things Work


Diamondlike said that what I say boils down to the fact that everybody is right and everybody is wrong. It is a matter of perceptions.

What bothers me about this is that Diamondlike comes so close to an important truth that his failing to get the whole point is dangerous.

If the history of Christianity teaches us anything, it is that those who come very close to the whole truth are far more destructive than those who are simply and obviously wrong.

It is true that we are all human and honest people can be wrong. But if this just boils down to everybody is right and everybody is wrong, we are worse off than we started. This logic leads us to the conclusion that no one is completely wrong. It leads to the conclusion that no one is completely evil.

Wrong.

A person can be purely evil.

Whitaker’s First Law relating to truth (Truth with a capital is ALWAYS the enemy of truth) says that a human being can be altogether evil. It says that a human being can be altogether wrong.

Whitaker’s First Law relating to the truth says that someone who genuinely believes he is perfectly good is sure to be perfectly evil. Such a person is incapable of reason. Such a person is incapable of simple mercy.

The person who has no doubt that he is absolutely right is convinced that he is the only arbiter of what is right, the embodiment of Truth and of Mercy. In the name of his conviction that he is Truth and Mercy Incarnate he becomes the ultimate enemy of simple truth and simple mercy.

Every priest of the Inquisition believed that. Every member of Stalin’s Secret Police believed that.

The person who is convinced that he is the True Intellectual, the Only True Prophet of Truth, becomes the Priest of the Temple.

He is the absolutely, altogether evil.

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  1. #1 by delamare on 08/24/2005 - 11:22 am

    I notice, that a lot of people behave like this. Meaning, they, feel that no matter what they are always right about anything and can never be wrong.

    What would you recommend as a solution to this attitude, how, do we instill humility, or rather, a wish to think and reason, in someone like that. Should we just abandon them as being, “pure evil”?…though they may be?

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