or, rather, *should* I value everyone's opinion equally? or should i look to the well informed in whatever area i'm dealing with to evaluate?
for instance, given an odd situation of a televised operation... if i want to stop a patient on an operating table from bleeding to death and asked everyone in the television audience for their opinion, this would be a pretty dumb thing to do... but if i ask the other doctors in the room and ignore the television audience, i think we could agree that this would be more reasonable...
but everyone just loves to insist that "all opinions are valid"... I'm of the opinion that they certainly are not!
Similarly, with ethical questions, should I ask my friend who is a steel-welder who has studied welding all of his life and never read about or discussed ethics what the right thing to do is in a tough situation? or would I be better off going to a theological enthusiast or philosopher?
2007-03-29
21:22:43
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Steve C
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