ANTAGORAS OF AEGYPTUS MINOR
Man is the measure of nothing, not even himself.
THE CREDULITY OF SAINT THOMAS
He saw with the eye of a skeptical camel
Spoke loud in a voice that did not stammer
Thrust with a hand that could well heft a hammer
Yet regained his lost faith anyway
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Excerpt from Metrical Ethics
But even an impartial and rational observer cannot make valid judgements concerning the actions of persons remote in space or time. Ethical principles are epiphenomenal to location and circumstance, so spatial and temporal discontinuities preclude any attempts to formulate a universal moral code.
Valid judgements can be made solely about actions that occur within the observer's synchrostere, i.e., in real time and within a volume of space not exceeding one cubic meter. This is slightly in excess of 35 cubic feet, or approximately six feet by three feet by two feet, dimensions that might contain two persons as they copulate. Of course, copulating persons are seldom rational observers.
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A THINKER'S DAMNED
And how dieth the wise man? As the fool.
Ecclesiastes 2:16
They dragged him into the main square
where they bound him to a granite post
placed in its center. Then they arranged
themselves about, each fervently clutching
a paver or a cobble from the usual rubble of
public places, awaiting the patriarch's signal.
His final thoughts were of the stone he'd sought,
the stone that is more than stone, so perfect,
so perfectly unobtainable by mortals like him.
Just before the thing itself smashed into his skull
as much of wisdom as he would acquire in this life.