Plausible? Yes. But my personal opinion? No.
  I see ideals as the imagined lines on a piece of paper vs the
  actual lines we draw that are imperfect, 3D, bumpy under a
  magnifying glass.

  Reconciling ideal and real is, to me, a fight that happens
  within cognitive dissonance... the fight between how we imagine
  the world should be vs what we actually experience the world to
  be.

  Is there a reality "beyond here"? Well, I hope so! But I don't
  know myself. What I do know is that the "idea of ideas" from
  Plato onwards - of a timeless eternal 'something' that's perfect
  and such, whether it be God or mathematics or logic or reason or
  Truth or whatever - seems to cause humans much trouble when
  people fight with ideologies.

  They're useful tools, and good goals; and I honestly hope that
  Summum Bonum or something like it exists in an Ultimate reality,
  and I hope that an Ultimate reality does exist. But I personally
  don't know.

  I just want people here to treat each other with respect
  whenever possible and leave the ideology for interesting
  discussions but not used as weapons that lead to real bloody
  ones.

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