Pauline doubt, which tests everything in order to hold fast to what is good, is hard work. But it does not doubt that there is a good to be found, and does not doubt the standards for the test.
Cartesian doubt, which doubts everything except what literally cannot be doubted, is not honest. If it were, it would admit that there is nothing which cannot be doubted, not even the famous cogito, ergo sum. So it could never even begin to advance toward the truth.
Have you noticed? Those who imagine virtual-reality utopias inhabited by “uploaded” human beings repeat the mistakes of those who used to imagine actual-reality utopias inhabited by flesh and blood. To think all problems will be solved by “consensual” virtual reality is like thinking that in the real world all problems will be solved by “consensual” government. If virtual reality could be anything that was desired, then it would be anything that someone desired.
Two stickers, seen on the same bumper of the same van in Austin, Texas:
#1: Stop the Dissections: Have Respect for Life.
#2: Pro-Choice and Proud of It.
"Government does not rest on force. Government is force; it rests on consent or a conception of justice.” -- G.K. Chesterton, What's Wrong With the World
“Adultery is bad morals, but divorce is bad metaphysics.” -- Charles Williams
