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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 2157271" data-attributes="member: 4937">If an alignment isn't correct, then it implies that the arguments in favor of a particular alignment aren't as intellectually rigorous as arguments in favor of another alignment.   Again, that's precisely why this is such a good question.   If you believe an alignment has superior intellectual rigor, then that implies that that alignments declarations about the universe are correct, which implies that one 'ought' to follow that alignment.   And there is I think a strong corellation between what one believes one 'ought' to do and which 'alignment' a person may be categorized within.Note, that this is true even if the alignment claims that the proof of the alignments claims are non-rational or faith based.  If an alignment can present an argument which shows that true correctness can only be reached by make a super-rational 'leap of faith', if the alignment is correct then this argument is also more intellectually rigorous.   Afterall, what could be more intellectually rigorous than pointing out that intellect is not limitlessly powerful when intellectual evidence can be presented that this is indeed not the case.   So, if Socratic/Platonic line of reasoning which suggests that Truth lies in an unknowable perfection outside the observable universe and its characteristics can only be infered indirectly is correct, then it follows that Socrates/Plato made a more intellectually rigorous argument, and if Camus or Derada is correct that there is in fact no absolute truth and that all is basically relative then that is the more intellectually rigorous object and ones intellect is proved by the recognition of that correctness.   Likewise, if the truth is that all these  arguments are in some way equally right and correct and edifying or in some way equally meaningless and false, then that is the more intellectually rigorous belief.Whatever the truth may be - even if the truth is that there is no truth - whatever argument agrees with the truth is the more intellectually rigorous one because it is the one which truly wise and rational people ought to be most often attracted to.   If in fact intellect cannot be measured by its ability to be correct, then its the concept of intellectual which has no meaning and not the concept of truth.</blockquote>

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