Words can be Made to Say Anything

Words can be made to say anything (or nothing (which are the samething)).
Of course, this isn’t to say that whatever may be said is true.
To say the sky is yellow is obviously false if the sky is blue.
Truth is context relative.
A fact is (ideally) wholly objective.
For it to be truly a fact it must adequately correspond to the state of affairs that it describes.
An opinion is essentially subjective.
For it to be truly an opinion, the subject must hold it.
It the opinion ‘is true’, then it is a fact, although the subject may not know it.
Opinions are therefore deficient truths.
They are beliefs that have not yet been proven.
We all have opinions.
We know this because we disagree.
To raise opinions to the level of truths is the purpose of philosophy.
Thus it seems strange when we hear a philosopher argue in favour of, say, torture.
A philosopher must be (cognitively) living the good life in order to explicate a good philosophy.
They who condone torture to prevent disaster falling upon themselves are obviously living in fear.
The good life is, however, admittedly an ideal.
No one lives the good-life.
But philosophers are trained to imagine it.
Such make-believe forms the starting-points of our reasoning which acts to back it up, make it more convincing with arguments.
The Utopian ideal is then integrated into pragmatic prescription.
Opinions in ethics are problematic, but not insurmountable.
If our metaphysical systems are true, then our ethical ones will follow suit.
Communication is to convey ideas to others.
Philosophy communicates ideas, striving for truth.
Philosophy wishes to communicate itself to all.
A single universal truth is better than many ‘truths’ that contradict one another.
Philosophy strives to communicate one truth to all.
Opinions of what is good and bad are subjective.
The truth of what is good must be good for all.
There is a sense in which language can be used as a guide to the truth of the good and the bad.
I say that it’s good to thwart my enemies.
My enemies disagree.
Therefore, it cannot be true that it is good to thwart my enemies.
It is only an opinion.
And so we have to go back to the proverbial drawing board.
I say instead that it’s bad to thwart my enemies and they agree.
Is this the truth?
No, because it’s not good for me if my enemies succeed.
Stuck on opinions again.
I say that it’s bad to have enemies.
They agree.
That’s why we’re always out to rid ourselves of each other(‘s influence).
The question is then, what can we truthfully do to rid ourselves of our enemies.
The next step then is to figure out what and why an enemy is.
If selfishness is the main obstacle preventing us from changing our opinions into truths, then Charity is the virtue that we should be promoting.