[MD] Babylonian intellectuals

[John Carl]

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> dmb says:
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> If you're puzzled then you have confused diversity with promiscuity.


Ya know.  I think I have.  I'll accept your point if you can tell me the
fundamental difference.



> If my posts are focused on rejection and exclusion it's only because I
> think hair-brained nonsense ought to be rejected and excluded.


You and Benito are in complete agreement.



> I mean, wanting lots of different opinions is not the same thing as
> dropping our standards of quality to accommodate every opinion. Like I said,
> that's just intellectual debauchery.
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So... you've got some sort of built-in meter which automatically
discriminates between the degenerates and the messiahs, and we just ought to
trust your judgement?



> "If relativism signifies contempt for fixed categories and those who claim
> to be the bearers of objective immortal truth ... then there is nothing more
> relativistic than Fascist attitudes and activity... From the fact that all
> ideologies are of equal value, that all ideologies are mere fictions, the
> modern relativist infers that everybody has the right to create for himself
> his own ideology and to attempt to enforce it with all the energy of which
> he is capable." (Benito Mussolini, 1921)
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Hey, that does sound familiar.  Is this guy your true spiritual father or
something?

John the still immensely puzzled.