re: #435 keloyd

That civic test had this question:
13) Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and Aquinas would concur that:
A. all moral and political truth is relative to one’s time and place
B. moral ideas are best explained as material accidents or byproducts of evolution
C. values originating in one’s conscience cannot be judged by others
D. Christianity is the only true religion and should rule the state
E. certain permanent moral and political truths are accessible to human reason

which (adjusting my square hat with the little tassle, then holding on to my lapel in a professorial manner) I got right, but that’s some hoity toity stuff. You can cast a rational vote and still answer this one with “yo mama”.

I’d argue that those who can do both are perhaps precisely the sort of people we want running things. Educated defiance is the best kind.