[MD] Intellectual Level

[Platt Holden]

While Horse and DMB may find Marsha's explanations of her position
insincere, dishonest and evasive, I find them sincere, honest and direct.
It's a matter of opinion. For someone to set himself up as the arbiter of
the one right way to think and speak is not only presumptuous but
insufferably egoistic. Free expression is at the top of intellectual values.
We do not want thought police here or anywhere. Or do we?

Platt


On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 3:30 PM, david buchanan <dmbuchanan at hotmail.com>wrote:

>
> Horse said to Platt:
> I asked for answers to questions that are fundamental to Marsha's ideas
> about reification. As usual, and as I thought would happen, no answers were
> forthcoming. Only evasion. This has been going on all year (and longer) with
> a number of members of MD. That's what I'm saying.
>
>
> Platt replied to Horse:
> I don't see anything in the rules about a participant's obligation to
> answer another's questions. Is this a new mandate you intend enforce?
>
>
> dmb says:
> If I understand Platt's childish "logic" he's saying that if Marsha isn't
> allowed to be insincere, dishonest, and evasive then Horse is a tyrant. If I
> understand him, cheating is okay so long as there is no rule against it or
> no ruler to enforce it.
> Leaving aside the fact that this "reasoning" is deeply insulting to Horse,
> this response raises a question; why would any self-respecting amateur
> philosopher have a problem with the "rules" against such evasions. Why would
> any thinker object to the "rules" against any form of intellectual
> dishonestly? Aren't moral people sickened by such behavior? Isn't it the
> intellectual equivalent of an obscenity? Wouldn't a decent person respond to
> such a charge with a substantial answer instead of more evasions? Horse says
> there has been a whole year of these evasions and I can testify to a long
> history of evasions from Marsha too. It's just not right and I think it's
> really sad that anybody needs to explain how or why it's so bad. How can a
> grown up person not know this already?
>
> Sigh.
>
>
> I think anyone, including Horse, has the right to complain about things
> like that. I think every self-respecting MOQer should consider it their duty
> to cry foul in a situation such as this.
>
>
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