2.+Why+Truth+Matters

By what means do people create antinomies to the truth according to the authors of this reading? (Read chapter 1)

Antinomy: 1. A contradiction or opposition, especially between two laws or rules 2. A contradiction between principles or conclusions that seem equally reasonable and necessary, a paradox.

The main event would be trying to cover up the truth, and one view would be the Authorities approach in which they believe that they can mentally deal with unwanted truth. On the other hand, The Taboo approach think that they have been offended and they start protests and they also have a no-go area which is Religion, and that’s gets to the point where these two approaches show that they have difference views on the same topic.

What points are the authors making? Do you agree? The points that the authors are making in this chapter are why truth matters, they’re also talking about the techniques for denying unwanted ideas and truth which are the command approach (authority says that’s wrong) and the Taboo approach which are people protesting and threatening advertising companies for offending their culture, or religion. They also mention how the truth belongs to everyone and not anyone in particular. I agree with the last part of the chapter when they say that the truth doesn’t belong to anyone, but I don’t think that I agree with the command or Taboo approach because in the command approach they say that if the authority says something's wrong then its wrong, but I don’t believe that the truth can be determined by hierarchy of importance. And as for the Taboo approach, I’m not so sure about this, but I’m sure I wouldn’t agree with it because if you don’t believe something then you wouldn’t consider it to be the truth on your own terms, but I wouldn’t start a protest about it, I would just simply deny the fact that’s its wrong according to myself. I believe what they are saying is that these are ways that truths are manipulated to get people to do things that others want them to do. That's why the last line of the chapter looks at the need to define truth so as to avoid people, or groups, using it for political, religious, or whatever other reasons. Try organizing these ideas into paragraphs and address each one with a little more depth as you write.