Li! Don't tempt me with another one of your morality debates!! You know I can't resist it! Well, because perhaps I'm such a sceptic about the whole idea of an inborn morality. Law---we can safely chuck out of the window after all we know how flawed that is--although I'm not denying its necessity.

Yes MOrality--tsk tsk that tricky issue I would rather not think of--but you know I am a little bit on the left on this issue. Well Li, I don't believe that either of us can be right, at least if we do cliam that one of us is right and the other wrong--then it throws our argument into some doubt afterall any argument that claims to explain everything and definitively point out that it is itself flawless and right in and of itself--would be a bad argument. Every good argument well argued would take into views the points of the other side. Oh and I don't consider destroying the opponent's view point by point as argument--that is the tyrant's way of arguing. And I find any point of view which cannot tolerate an opposing view dubious. that being said makes it very hard for me to launch into what I feel and believe--but which I still find myself doubting every now and then (when and if I do happen to think about it)

Sometimes I find myself getting to this point when certainty is dangerous for me. As I grow older I find uncertainty so much more attractive. I always think: Perhaps I don't know and understand this world as well as I thought I did when I was younger. The words 'perhaps, maybe' just become more attractive somehow. I don't know if this is a good change, but I like embracing the questions so much more than the answers now. in fact, I like the questions--turning it over and over in my mind--answers just seem minute and unimportant. For a big question such as this--an answer would seem insufficient even foolish perhaps.

Sometimes I feel that certain answers for some people are important and it may be a guiding light for the way they live their life and see the world through. I find putting doubt to that a little cruel. That is something a younger OiYing would not hesitate to do, doubt afterall is also a gift from God in my opinion. It allowed men to fly, and new things to be borne and things to be created. If it is not for absences and gaps (which doubt is a form of) perhaps human imagination would not be as fertile.

That's why I hold on to my doubts and my questions because the world for me is more beautiful because of the arbitary, the uncertain, the doubtful. Perhaps you may find this dangerous for me to hold this blurry vision of things even when it comes to morality. But again, maybe becauase morality always only allow black and white and for you to pick only one side, I find it very suspicious, and I prefer a world where there are more shades and colours--a dream one. one in which being right or wrong is not as important as feeling loved, inspired and to have lived and dreamt. That's why I might more easily forgive a lover who has murdered than a judge who passes out death sentences coldly on his high chair.

BUt maybe that's just who I choose to be--a dreamer, rather than a moralist.