When self-worth is elusive enough that you can only derive it from packs of strangers in bars, there could be some psychological issues at play.
You can only derive so much comfort from high-mindedness, and in the twitchy weeks since Sept. 11 most of my friends have succumbed to the urge to gobble "chocolate" of one sort or another -- edible, aesthetic, even sexual.
Rather, substantive knowledge about the world can only derive from empirical investigation and logical analysis of the consequences of these findings.
(As with the NEC rule for the \(K\) operator, it's okay that we can always derive \ \Box \phi\) from \ \phi\), because we can only derive \ \phi\) in the first place when \ \phi\) is a logical truth).
The solution to the tails problem can only derive from abandoning completely the probabilistic interpretation and from adopting a more physical and realistic interpretation relating 'what is out there' to, e.g., the mass density distribution over the whole universe.
But we can only derive 'I ought to do it' by means of a principle that what is good ought to be, and another that if something ought to be, then we ought to do whatever would have it as a consequence.
However, the idea that men can only derive self-worth from being breadwinners in the workplace has not changed, which leaves little room for either gender's assigned "roles" to advance.
It is patently absurd to imply in the 21st century that ethical views on the role of the state in general, or on a particular direction in public policy, can only derive from religious communities.
