Q&A: A Mentally Stable and Objective Person!?
A Mentally Stable and Objective Person!?
Question
My question is based on a few basic assumptions that create the following paradox:
A. A person’s emotional makeup affects his judgment.
B. Every person has an emotional inclination in some direction in life, such as devotion to homeschooling, opposition to homeschooling, and so on—there’s no need to elaborate.
C. Only a mentally unstable person is capable of entering a discussion with an open mind and with the courage to say that if he discovers he is mistaken, he will retract his position. For if that were not so, a person would have spent most of his early years constantly crossing over to some other group, and surely that is neither fitting nor correct for a normal person.
My question is: what value is there in discussions coming from such a place? And aren’t such discussions meaningless?
I hope I explained myself clearly. Thank you very much.
Answer
The third claim is completely unfounded.
A. Indeed true.
B. Obviously.
C. Not true. A person can act according to what he understands. That will not always happen, because there are impulses and influences, but he does have the ability to do so. And the proof is no proof, because a person does not change his mind every day, so it is no wonder that he does not change his path every day.