At 12:18 PM 2/22/2004 -0600 Robert Seeberger wrote:
>As to the question of consistency: I think it is every persons right
>to change their minds when they feel it is necessary. I also feel that
>another person sees or think they see an inconsistency in ones
>worldview, it is perfectly OK to point it out.
>In fact it is something of a duty for us to help each other through
>our various blind spots. And we all *do* have blind spots.
Indeed, blind spots like macking a mockery of deadly serious positions, and
then calling those people whom you mock "small-minded."
I stated plainly and simply that I believe that human life begins at
conception. You chose to mock my defense of that life in large part by
suggesting that I logically should also want to defend the sacredness of
every single human cell. The utter non-sequitur of that position should
be readily apparent to you.
If you truly want to point out my blind spots: then please, use fair
representaitons of my positions, do not resort to mockery and insults, and
deal with my arguments on the merits.
In the meantime, I would ask you to consider too things:
1) If you were just mocking me, why does my post which mocked you back
require such a serious response?
2) If you truly want to know how offensive I found your post, imagine
someone writing "Every Jew is Sacred...." Since I believe that human
life really does begin at conception, that is how I took it.
Now obviously Monty Python is in the business of fairly offensive humor....
but when you backed up your Monty Python quote with that "hobgoblin" and
"small minds" stuff, you took it out of the realm of offensive humor and
into the realm of ust plain offensive.
JDG - Body Politic, Maru
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