#correctness

The procedural normative realist thinks that when we ask practical questions like “what must I do?” or “what is best in this case?” or “how should I live?” there are correct and incorrect things to say. [...] Procedural normative realism isn't completely trivial, for it does have an opposite, but that opposite is a kind of nihilism. The denial of procedural normative realism says that there is no ought, should, must, or reason at all.

Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free

Possibly unpopular opinion, but I would so much rather have someone stumbling with using the right words, or pronouns, or whichever, while genuinely trying to understand an issue or a person, than have people who don’t dare ask questions and keep their misconceptions in their heart and to themselves.

But is the nature of civilization “speed”? Or is it “consideration”? Any animal can rush around a corral four times a day. Only a human being can consciously oblige himself to go slowly in order to consider whether he is doing the right thing, doing it the right way, or ought in fact to be doing something else. . . . Speed and efficiency are not in themselves signs of intelligence or capability or correctness.