[MD] Joseph Campbell

[plattholden at gmail.com]

On 4 May 2009 at 15:09, Krimel wrote:

> I suppose I should take solace in the fact that this blathering and the
> venom of the right has ramped up a couple of notches like the squealing of
> pigs being slaughtered. Perhaps the hand writing is on the wall that these
> morons are being cast back into the KKK, John Birch fringe from whence they
> came.

How droll. No pigs could squeal as loudly as Krimel and Arlo in their 
frustration at not being able to mount a cogent argument against my 
conservative views regarding PC, government and individual liberty. 
Instead they resort to ad hominem attacks which Pirsig describes as not 
only wrong, but evil. In Lila's Child he writes:

"To say that a comment is "stupid" is to imply that the person who makes it 
is stupid. This is the "ad hominem" argument:   meaning,  "to the person."  
Logically it is irrelevant.  If Joe says the sun is shining and you argue that 
Joe is insane, or Joe is a Nazi or Joe is stupid, what does this tell us about 
the condition of the sun?  

"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.
  
Nothing further needs to be said about Krimel and Arlo.