
The extensive ranges of facts, interpretations and conclusions about almost everything with which mankind has to do are so far ranging that we often despair about finding the truth of a context for firm belief and guiding conduct. The matter is made even more complex in the changes of culture, circumstances, history, experience, emotions, nurture and biological influences. Preferred presumptions vary among individuals so to presuppose contradictions among them – sometimes to conflicting ends. To believe that peace is the best option among the related options for earth life will make a different person than one who assumes that periodic wars are inevitable. The first presumption deplores militarism in cost and participation. The second, even when deploring the context, supports… Read more