[MD] In Defense of Platt

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting ian glendinning <psybertron at gmail.com>:

> Platt, you confuse and debase "intellectual freedom".
> 
> Firstly in the idea that anything you said may have been intellectual,
> rather than purely biological, not even social.
> 
> Secondly in your selective ignorance - freedom comes with responsibilities too.
> 
> I too defend your rights to speak, you evil moron.
> Ian

As for Ian, Pirsig says it all:

"That the ad hominem argument is irrelevant is usually all the logic texts say
about it, but the MOQ allows one to go deeper and make what may be an original
contribution.  It says the ad hominem argument is a form of evil. The MOQ divides
the hominem, or "individual" into four parts: inorganic, biological, and
intellectual.  Once this analysis is made, the ad hominem argument can be defined
more clearly: It is an attempt destroy the intellectual patterns of an individual
by attacking his social status.  In other words, a lower form of evolution is being
used to destroy a higher form."  That is evil. (Lila's Child) 


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