A good, but brief dialogue. A couple of observations... notice how Cole had to use qualifiers in front of every response. This is usually a strong indicator of a moral conflict in the mind. Larken was not nearly as fundamental as he usually is, and let Cole off the hook on pretty much every topic (his topics or Cole's). But most important in my view, is the missed opportunity to nail down this persistent fallacy that morals and rights come from somewhere else. Throughout my years of research, blogging etc, I kept landing on the same two laws applicable to every individual: 1) agress against no living being or the planet, 2) for those that can't seem to get #1... vigorously defend life and the innocent. That's it. Also, Cole's attempt to imply that his job is necessary because people are cowards, must be examined in the context that he is looking at a society that has used these fallacies to govern itself for so long that it has created these cowards. In other words, people are under the mistaken impression that the condition of the world is not their problem or their fault. Well then, who's problem and who's fault is it?
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