We're stretching this 'road' metaphor.
On the one hand a road is an option, something we may choose.
Marco *seems* to be saying that all options are as good as each other - that
might be a misreading but the tone of it is a source of our disagreement.
On the other hand a road is a something that starts at A and leads
invariably to B, so that if I stand by the Rubicorn and take one road I go
to Rome, and if I take the other I don't.
Assuming we all start out at different places, then in the second "rubicorn"
sense of road we will all travel variously different roads if we are going
to Rome.
But in the first "option" sense of road, the going-to-Rome is itself a road,
and it therefore follows that sharing one objective, all the pilgrims to
Rome are sharing in this "option" sense the same road.
My worry is that in mixing up options and bridges over the Rubicorn we risk
saying quite accidentally that it is as well to go to Rome as not to go.
That's where I can't agree. In this, there is the one road.
Elephant
> From: Andrea Sosio <andrea.sosio@italtel.it>
> Organization: Italtel S.p.A.
> Reply-To: moq_discuss@moq.org
> Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 08:53:48 +0100
> To: <moq_discuss@moq.org>
> Subject: Re: MD Inside and Outside
>
> If a road to truth is just that - your travel towards the truth, this yields
> many good roads - at least in that the path you have to travel depends on
> where you start, even if we are all going to Rome. And we happen to begin our
> journey from a different place each, don't we? Isn't this beginning defined by
> what we understood (remember) and what we did not understand as yet? So we
> have different specific goals, different roads, for each of us.
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