> [Krimel] > I was not "judging" anything. I was commenting on Bo's judgment which as > usual is flawed.
I've seen self-contradictory statements before, but this one is a classic. [Krimel] > The fact is I have often been critical of attempts to condemn other > cultures > in light of our own and I have been quick to point out some of the > failing > and hypocrisy of western culture. This forum is not without its bigots, > Platt, Ham and Bo are all guilty. Your hero Bo makes blatantly > anti-Semitic > and anti-Muslim comments in nearly every post and reveals his shallow > understanding of theology, history, philosophy and the MoQ at every > breath. > I was just adding a particular comment to my list. Not only does Krimel engage in childish name-calling directed at three regular contributors to this site but singles out Bo for an evil ad hominem attack. Evil? You bet. Pirsig explains why: "To say that a comment is "stupid" is to imply that the person who makes it is stupid. This is the "ad hominem" argument: meaning, "to the person." Logically it is irrelevant. If Joe says the sun is shining and you argue that Joe is insane, or Joe is a Nazi or Joe is stupid, what does this tell us about the condition of the sun? That the ad hominem argument is irrelevant is usually all the logic texts say about it, but the MOQ allows one to go deeper and make what may be an original contribution. It says the ad hominem argument is a form of evil. "The MOQ divides the hominem, or "individual" into four parts: inorganic, biological, and intellectual. Once this analysis is made, the ad hominem argument can be defined more clearly: It is an attempt destroy the intellectual patterns of an individual by attacking his social status. In other words, a lower form of evolution is being used to destroy a higher form. That is evil." (LC, 140) It's always sad to see someone on a site devoted to Quality descend into malevolence. Platt . 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/
