[MD] Is Quality Value?

[Platt Holden]

Hi Arlo: If you don't mind let's postpone our debate until after 
Christmas. Not only would it be in keeping with the spirit of the holiday 
but I'm in the midst of a move to a new home so need the time to deal with 
that. With the move comes a new e-mail address, making it necessary to 
unsubscribe for a while. If all goes according to plan, I'll be back on 
line sometime late next week. In the meantime, very best wishes to you and 
yours for a marvelous Merry Christmas.

Warm regards,
Platt
 

> [Platt]
> If you say so, Arlo. How about proof? Incidentally, I forgot. Do you 
> consider abortion moral?
> 
> [Arlo]
> No, unless in rare instances (as Ham had said) where the mother's life is
> in jeopardy.
> 
> [Platt]
> As for murderers, rapists, pedophiles and other dangerous characters, your
> sympathy for them is touching. You may not consider them threats to
> society, but I'm glad that most people do.
> 
> [Arlo]
> I have no sympathy for them. I'd serve them with hard labor on a chain gang
> if I had my way. But murdering them? That only lowers me to their level.
> 
> As for their being a "threat to society" (once they are incarcerated), you 
> and others might "believe so", but you do so with no evidence, and only a
> thirst for revenge.
> 
> [Platt]
> Maybe if it was your daughter, God forbid, who suffered at the hands of one
> of these assailants, you wouldn't be so soft on crime and criminals.
> 
> [Arlo]
> So, its retribution after all. I won't deny there is an element of
> satisfaction in revenge. But my pain is not an excuse to commit murder. And
> it certainly wouldn't bring my daughter back. 
> 
> [Platt]
> I just hope you don't invite them to your parties like Pirsig's
> intellectuals did. But, since you're a liberal, if you did, I'd 
> understand. :-). 
> 
> [Arlo]
> That's right, Platt. If I don't want to kill them, it must me I favor
> standing around a punchbowl chatting with them. You have a strange sense of
> dichtomoy.
> 
> Arlo