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De titel:
"Consistency as a tool
How consistency should not be seen as a goal in itself, but as a useful tool to create frameworks."
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“Absolute consistency is unnatural, the only consistent people are dead people”
Consistency is a value that is highly regarded in our society. Often enough discussions – on any subject – end in one party claiming superiority over the other by argument of having more consistency. But is consistency really the base on which we can end a discussion? I s a more consistent solution to a problem really by definition a better solution? If the more consistent solution would always be better, this would mean that one should always strive to find and implement the most consistent solution.
I beg to differ. Consistency is a tool to be used in the creation of a framework for a solution to a question or problem, but should never become the goal in itself. This means that towards the solution of a problem one consistent framework can be just as good as another consistent framework. The decision lies in where a group of beings decide to take on a certain framework as solution towards the problem.
This framework that is decided upon should be as consistent as possible, but will never be the one and only ‘just’ solution.
Maybe this is getting too abstract, so let me explain with an example.
We can take the problem of abortion. What is the ‘correct’ solution or answer towards how we as a society have to react to the subject of abortion? Is there something like THE ‘good’ thing to do?
1. We could look at it through the framework used by Christians. It is clear that through their framework, abortion equals murder and therefore abortion is wrong (as murder is wrong in this framework).
2. We could look at it through the framework of an atheist who defines murder in a more scientific way as the taking away of life of another human being past the stage of foetus development. In this case, abortion is not a felony.
Is the one solution more consistent than the other? Both solutions are conventions of a society within a defined consistent framework. The difference in this case between the two frameworks is the definition of murder. But who dares to state that his definition of murder is more correct than the other?
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