[MD] Dynamic Development at all costs?

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting Krimel <Krimel at Krimel.com>:

> [Chris]
> Don't know, but I will say amen to that last part wholeheartedly.  And Arlo 
> is completeley right aswell. It is intellectualy painfull sometimes to meet 
> with this "radio-talk"  - I just have to hope that people around here 
> recognizes it for what it is.  I think they do.
> 
> [Krimel]
> A side note on the issue of fair and balanced. Just because there are
> differing opinions does not mean they deserve equal time. If we are studying
> race relations for example how much time should be spent on skinheads? If we
> are studying astronomy how much time should be devoted to the Ptolemaic
> system? If we are studying biology how much time should be spent on
> creationism? Certainly we would want to spend some time on oddball views and
> historic oddities but giving them equal time is a bit like saying we should
> break out the scales and weight gold against bullshit. We might have equal
> weight but no amount of thumbing scales will produce equal value.

Who is to judge what is gold and what is bull? Not an intellectual elite one
would hope. Pirsig eloquently squashes that notion. 




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