My experience is that many people interpret ‘working together to build a better world’ in the sense of ‘acting out of our ‘free will’ guided by the ‘universal knowledge of good’; i.e. out of our ‘purported’ moral and ethical knowledge.

This notion of joining together to make a better world seems to raise in us a feeling of ‘come on, people, we can do it, let’s get on with it’.

But there are spoilsports like myself, who will say things like; ‘Do you really believe in ‘free will’?’   and ‘How do you know what’s ‘good’ and what’s ‘bad’?

At this point,  I tend to start getting those nasty ‘what the hell is he going on about’ looks, that if they were utterances, would say;  ‘if you are not with us, you are against us.’ (more…)