Baba Aye's

Ola Kassim, Thank you for your response, please. It is not only that we collectively clarify our thoughts and build bodies of knowledge through discourse, it is factual that we do as well construct our social realities, in the process. It is in this light that I welcome the continuation of this discussion with you. Having said that, I must say that you still do not get the salient points in my argument. While I will try to avoid being repetitive, I will expound on these by engaging with your argument in its present formulation. One of the major differences between human beings and other members of the animal kingdom, at least according to conventional wisdom, is the ability to separate what is good and wholesome from what is bad or evil, even though the two are not always clear cut. The ability which you try to grapple with above is not first that of separating, but that of defining. It is based on what is defined, and in that process of its becoming a norm that separation begins to ma...

"Good is good; evil is evil. There can't be any moral justification for piracy in modern times." Dear Ola Kassim, Taking even your words as gospel truth; the second sentence of the (with all due respect), grossly naive formulation to say the least, contradicts the first. If good = good (no plus or minus) and bad = bad (simply the same thing as with the former), then what is good and what is bad is eternal, existing from whatever, whenever and wherever humans gained the knowledge of 'good' and 'bad' (some would say after Eve gave Adam that sweet fruit from the tree of knowledge...) and so will be until the endlessness of eternity, period. In that sense, what made piracy good (and mark you the powers that be then just as those of today never accepted it as good, even when they used pirates to fight their proxy wars in the Caribbeans -especially England vs Spain-), at a point in time but not now. Or to place what is implicit in your argument in a more explici...