@Emil,
Emil;158922 wrote:Especially when I see something like
this.
T.F. woman sentenced to life for lewdness charge
Holy $%*@!
That's a good example of the kind of new item which, ever since I was a child, has caused me to wonder what kind of madhouse we are living in.
The boat we are all in (that's from yet another recent thread) is a ship of fools.
That's another possible answer to the question
Where do you begin?, in another thread: I begin from the sense that nothing makes sense, and try to find some things that do make sense.
Human authority is almost invariably insane. So what is sanity?
When my own sanity is in doubt (especially for having naively trusted in human authority because, in a vicious circle, I didn't believe I could trust my own judgement), why am I not a nihilist? Why do I believe that there is all the difference in the world between good and bad, right and wrong, true and false, sane and insane?
Hence the need for philosophy.