[MD] Labels and Ostracisms

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Hmm.  I sent too soon.  Tricky little touch screen typing I haven't quite mastered.  

Continuing...


> [John]
> Anti-theism is probably the single biggest factor In the promulgation of SOM.
> 
> [Arlo]
> Since the MOQ is anti-theistic, and it opposes SOM, this statement is about as gross a misunderstanding of the MOQ as I've seen. But this just proves my point.

John:  Really?  How so?  First let me explain what I meant.  It is the resistance of the scientific world view to religious control which is most responsible for the teaching that values are subjective.  Academics especially, shudder at the slippery slope implicit in the idea that chemistry professors could come from anything but a randomly fortuitous arrangement of chemicals.  Thus the promulgation of the world view that they deem best suited to protect their power and prestige.  

Sorta reminds me of poor old' Socrates' persecution at the hands of the Sophists.  Even tho he was just interested in truth.

John