[MD] S/O and Morality

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting david buchanan <dmbuchanan at hotmail.com>:

> 
> Platt said to Steve:
> > Looks like straw man set up to me. To state or imply that advocates of
> > global warming have been censored is absurd. Al Gore's propaganda on the
> subject
> > is even required viewing in many schools to a captive audiences of uncritical
> > children. So no, the Bush administration has not behaved immorally in this
> case
> > according to the MOQ. No administration has a duty to provide a one-sided
> platform
> > for controversial views. The demands of intellect requres that all sides on an
> > issue of national importance be heard. If anything, the opponents of global
> > warming have had their voices immorally smothered by the media with proponents
> > even going so far as to claim the issue is "settled." That's about as close to
> a
> > claim of absolute truth as you can get.
> 
> dmb says:
> Oh my god! Platt is either a liar or an idiot and probably both. Here are just a
> few short articles. I realize that one ought to have compassion for the blind,
> even when they hurt us and spill our groceries all over the ground, but I just
> can't muster the strength in this case. Instead, I just don't like the guy. He's
> the worst person I ever encountered.

Typical immoral personal attack. 

> There are thousands of others as well. Entire books have been written. The phrase,
> "bush's war on science" will get you more than three thousand hits on google so
> nobody has to take my word for it. 

As if the number of hits on google is significant of anything. There are
1,250,000 hits on flying saucers, so they must exist.

Such genius is indeed rare.

Platt


  



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