[MD] Intellect battles the barbarians

[Gene M]

Platt man, you do Not have a leg to stand on. You have yet to present a
coherent defense for any of the ridiculous arguments you have advanced, or
Arlo's points. As far as I can tell, you've got nothing but posturing and
hot air, hardly the most intellectual basis...

Not that I expect a real response from you or anything. Just thought I'd let
you know.

-Gene

On 10/25/06, pholden at davtv.com <pholden at davtv.com> wrote:
>
> Quoting ARLO J BENSINGER JR <ajb102 at psu.edu>:
>
>
> > [Arlo]
> > Apparently Platt still refuses to do nothing but offer rhetorical, and
> > distortive, filler. How silly of me to think otherwise.
> >
> > "He has no objection to laws against indecent exposure." Why are we
> moral in
> > demanding women cover parts of their body we find "indecent", but
> Muslims are
> > immoral for doing the same? In what way is the breast "naturally
> sexual", so
> > that OUR laws are based not on cultural but something "objective", while
> the
> > sexual provocativeness of faces to Muslim men cultural?
> >
> > "Is this the intellectual view of how our society ought to be--men and
> women
> > running around naked?" According to Platt's post, the intellectual view
> of
> > society should be to free women from having to wear veils, even if
> Muslim men
> > enacted those laws because they found such exposure "sexually
> provocative". Why
> > does Platt then consider it not an intellectual view of society to free
> women
> > from having to wear tops? Is it because laws are moral when they appease
> > Platt's sexual proclivities, but immoral when they do not? So much for
> > "intellect", just another example of social posturing. But, I understand
> your
> > inability to answer these questions, and your retreat again into
> rhetorical
> > evasion and distortion. Good luck with that.
> >
> > What "readers" will no doubt see is your hypocritical misuse of the MOQ.
>
> Notice Arlo wants to tell us how moral it is for women to go topless
> (according to
> the MOQ), but refuses to use the same argument for women and men to go
> bottomless.
> Hmmm. Wonder why. :-)
>
>
>
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