Quoting Arlo Bensinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > [Platt] > I thought we also agreed that in certain cases fear was > intellectually justified and that it was often difficult to tell the > difference. > > [Arlo] > I don't know if the use of doomsday rhetoric is every justified, > unless one accepts that we as a people are so numb that the only way > to get our attention is to shout "the sky is falling!" I would agree > that there are things we should be concerned about, and our concerns > should be articulated clearly, and without recourse to fear-rhetoric.
Maybe so, but to be concerned about the possibility of atomic warfare represents a justifiable doomsday scenario IMO. So does the possibility of global warming in the eyes of some serious people, not necessarily politicians. Further, a return of the genocides of the 20th century are a legitimate doomsday concern for the populations at risk. Sometimes fear-rhetoric is required to arose people to real and present dangers, just as sympathy and similar emotional rhetoric is justified to right social ills. ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
