Commenting & Truth vs. Opinion

I have gotten comments on many things I have written on the internet over the years and it never fails to amaze me how often people will try to make you believe they are right and you are wrong. There are rarely clear cut answers to the things I write about, that is why I write about them. I like to make my opinion known but I do not force my opinion on others.

The saying goes, “The only sure things in life are death and taxes.” I disagree with that statement because there are universal truths. Truth based on law and truth based on science & math. Everything else is basically just an opinion.

I recently received a comment which, in part, said that people are only entitled to informed opinions. I believe that people are entitled to any opinion. That is freedom of speech, a basic human right given to us by our forefathers. It is law, therefore it is true.

I looked online, searching under “universal truth” & “proven truth”. I found a lot of biblical reference and opinions on what should be considered true. I suppose to find the facts I must do the research in technology, math, science, etc. (I am not into research so I don’t know how likely it is that I’ll actually do that.) One thing I can say from experience is that every living thing dies. I believe that to be true. All other things can be put up for debate. If you’d like to add a definite truth that cannot be debated, please leave it in a comment.

Response to Time article “Top 10 Mysteries of the Mind” (2007)

Top 10 Mysteries of the Mind

My opinion:

Seeing that this is a top 10 list, I cannot condemn the article itself for not being thorough enough.   I can , however,  discuss what I think are important things for scientists to learn about the brain.

It would be a great thing for society as a whole, if scientists could determine for sure where animal instinct and morality cross each other in the brain.  Why does the animal inside each of us subside to our individual morals?  What makes a person go from thought to action when they know the action is illegal and immoral?

What makes a pedophile, rapist, murderer, or abuser?  How can some people grow up in the same environment as another and the two end up as polar opposites?  I say it is not only the brain.  It is the trauma the brain may suffer during gestation and birth.  It is the way each person an individual meets effects them.  It is the emotional, physical, and/or sexual traumas the person may have suffered throughout life.  It is also the chemical makeup of the person, their heritage, their genes.

In the movie “Minority Report”, people where arrested on the basis that they were seen by precognitive’s committing a crime.  I think the idea is a good one, yet not realistic in our day.  Now if scientists can examine a persons DNA or do a brain map to see how the brain is functioning, then determine from that the likelihood of that person becoming/being a violent person, it would be possible to invent treatments that could prevent the crimes from ever happening.

There are many questions when it comes to how the brain and mind work.  I believe that some things are more important to figure out than what dreams are made of.

2007 © L.J.B.