A Civil Rebuttal

A Civil Rebuttal


           Philosophy -- a:pursuit of wisdom. b:a search for a general

understanding of values and reality by chiefly speculative rather than

observational means.


     Through this most specific definition given to us respectively by Sir

Webster's dictionary, I choose in my best interest to refrain to you just what

the meaning of philosophy is.  I implore you to try and comprehend this matter

in what exactly this word brought abrupt to us is about.  The word philosophy

has two definitive definitions.  The first simply means to pursue, or strive for,

wisdom.  I beg to differ in the understanding of the fault I make in trying to

gain this unprecedented ‘knowledge.'  The knowledge that we as a unity try to

strive for have made us, again as a unity, divides.  I asked myself exactly how

we have achieved ‘civilized chaos' in the search for our solutions and

resolutions of the very ‘virus' it seems we have caused.  I would not of course

go so far as to say a civil war between the generations within this house, but

moreover to express that simply by me using philosophy, it becomes not only my

benefit, but a mutualism between us.

     Please feel more than obliged to correct me if I am incorrect (morally

or politically) but are we not all philosophers ourselves?  As a baker's

vocation is to bake, a philosopher's vocation is to think.  Is it not that we

all think?  I was deeply saddened at your comments in the oppression and

restriction to what I may or may not strive to think.  As a pacifist and non-

sadist, I call what you believe in as ‘ingraining or indoctrination', whereas

our own society may call it ‘brainwashing'.   Our human nature gives us freedom,

as does the Constitution.  It guarantees us the right to “life, liberty, and the

pursuit of happiness”.  Within the refines of this home, I find it a task to see

those liberties granted.  Here is a few of the world's greatest oppressors: Jim

Jones, Adolph Hitler, Napoleon Bonaparte, Julius Caesar, David Koresh, and Anton

Szandor LaVey.  I know, as well as you, that these notorious six are among the

world's most hated.  However here are a few oppressors from another standpoint:

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